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From: fouts@orville (Marty Fouts)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: What with these Vector's anyways?
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Date: Mon, 27-Jul-87 12:16:27 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 27 12:16:27 1987
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Keywords: vector Cray Cyber CDC Cpu Supercomputers


Actually, any vendor who has a machine which can reach a flop rating
within an order of magnitude (you pick the base ;-) of the currently
believed to be fastest speed will call his machine a supercomputer.  I
have seen advertisements for massively parallel supercomputers
recently, which achieve the "not to be exceeded" rating via >> 1 slow
processor.

What is in a name is that a rose is much easier to sell than a pansy,
so makes more money (:-(