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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
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  3. From: shair@barolo.cso.uiuc.edu (Bob Shair)
  4. Subject: Re: Upgrade PS/2 to a "Cray-like" performance
  5. References: <1992Aug13.201555.21815@watson.ibm.com> <Bsy7Mx.4pq@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <BszF6F.yK@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <BsznF1.447@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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  8. Reply-To: rmshair@chgvmic1.vnet.ibm.com
  9. Organization: IBM Champaign
  10. Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 20:39:15 GMT
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  12.  
  13. jvmg9796@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (doc) writes:
  14.  
  15. >shair@barolo.cso.uiuc.edu (Bob Shair) writes:
  16. >
  17. >>Well, I AM in sales, and since my customer (U of Ill) has asked,
  18. >>it's priced at $32,500.  
  19. >
  20. >I could buy an AS/400 for that and probably have enough left over for a
  21. >new car.  (Well, maybe not) :)
  22. >
  23. You certainly could.  It would do an excellent job of transaction    
  24. processing, accounting, and office work.
  25. Neither the AS/400 nor the car, however, will provide anything like
  26. 100 MFLOPS of sustained performance. 
  27. --
  28.  
  29. Bob Shair                          shair@chgvmic1.vnet.ibm.com
  30. Scientific Computing Specialist    SHAIR@UIUCVMD (bitnet)
  31. IBM Champaign
  32.