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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
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Posted: Mon Aug  5 12:57:04 1985
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Organization: Saber Technology, San Jose, CA
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> 
> 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.

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Name:	Robert Skinner
Mail:	Saber Technology, 2381 Bering Drive, San Jose, California 95131
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