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From: bradley@im4u.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Cray-2 Overview, extracted from "Cray Channels"
Message-ID: <388@im4u.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 18:10:10 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  7 18:10:10 1985
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Reply-To: bradley@im4u.UUCP (David K. Bradley)
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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> 	A pioneer in the use of liquid immersion cooling technology,
> 	the CRAY-2 features a 256-million word [8 8-bit bytes to a word]
> 	Common Memory, four independent processors and a 4.1 nanosecond
> 	clock cycle -- all in a package just 45 inches tall and 53 inches
> 	in diameter.  The CRAY-2 delivers effective CPU speed six to twelve
> 	times that of the CRAY-1 and runs an operating system based on
> 	AT&T's widely accepted UNIX(tm) System V.

Anybody know how much one of these things costs?  And while we're at it,
how much did one of those "old" CRAY-1's used to cost?  :-)
-- 
David K. Bradley  

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