Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 / ST 1.0; site saber.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!sun!saber!skinner From: skinner@saber.UUCP (Robert Skinner) Newsgroups: net.graphics Subject: Re: Orphaned Response Message-ID: <1728@saber.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 12:57:04 EDT Article-I.D.: saber.1728 Posted: Mon Aug 5 12:57:04 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Aug-85 02:30:28 EDT References: <10570@rochester.UUCP> <6700022@datacube.UUCP> <1660@mnetor.UUCP> Organization: Saber Technology, San Jose, CA Lines: 30 > > The Butterfly is a switch based machine using 8Mhz M68k as processing > elements, AMD-2901 bit slicers as MMU's, and custom VLSI for > switchers. A 128 node machine has been delivered and is supposed to be > available on Arpanet (to/by whom, I don't know). If fully populated > with memory, that 128 node machine will have 512 Mb of *global*(!!) > memory since each node's local memory can be globally accessed via the > butterfly switch. > -- > > > Regards, > > George Hart, Computer X Canada Ltd. > UUCP: {allegra|decvax|linus|ihnp4}!utzoo!mnetor!george > BELL: (416)475-8980 I heard about 6 month's ago from a friend at Advanced Information and Design Systems, Mountain View, CA, that they were to receive a Butterfly machine. (That company name, AIDS, is not a joke. The company is older than the disease.) He shall remain nameless, the phone number is 415-941-3912. I don't know the Arpanet pathname. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Name: Robert Skinner Mail: Saber Technology, 2381 Bering Drive, San Jose, California 95131 AT&T: (408) 945-0518, or 945-9600 (mesg. only) UUCP: ...{decvax,ucbvax}!decwrl!saber!skinner ...{amd,ihnp4,ittvax}!saber!skinner