Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ecsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!ecsvax!hes From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer) Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: Denelcor closes business. Message-ID: <687@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Nov-85 21:28:09 EST Article-I.D.: ecsvax.687 Posted: Sun Nov 3 21:28:09 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 06:30:02 EST Distribution: net Organization: NC State Univ. Lines: 10 Denelcor Inc., Aurora, CO, "closed its doors this month [Oct], dismissing all of its employees after six profitless years and an unsuccessful attempt to bring multiple-instruction multiple-data parallel processing to 64-bit supercomputer markets." From "Parallel Processing: Why a Shakeout Nears" in the Oct 28 issue of Electronics, pp. 32-34. My mathematician colleagues, who do research on the design of algorithms, felt that the HEP was one of the most "interesting" architectures around. --henry schaffer