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From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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Nate Williams wrote:
> 
> Hmm, how many of these are still in business selling highly parallel
> systems?  Sounds like failure to me...
> 
Well the new UNIX owners chose to work on this thing further which
should, in fact, show that it is a complete failure, as everything
associated with SCO. :-)
Parallel computing is not cost effective, but MOSIX, MPC and the other
options we are looking are free.

		Pedro.

> Nate