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Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 15:08:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>
To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
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Subject: Re: Cluster Computing in BSD
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sounds like too many companies for an extremely expensive niche market to me.

your logic sounds similar to "win95 is the most widely used operating 
system in the world, therefore it is the best".

On Thu, 15 May 1997, Nate Williams wrote:

> > > The difference between "could" and "does" is the
> > > reason for the failure of (nearly) every business unit that sold
> > > highly parallel/cluster systems.
> > 
> > Except Goodyear.  And Thinking Machines Corp.  And Cray Computing.
> > And Cray Research.  And Fujitsu.  And...
> 
> Hmm, how many of these are still in business selling highly parallel
> systems?  Sounds like failure to me...
> 
> 
> 
> Nate
>