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Date:      Thu, 15 May 1997 15:00:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Josef Grosch <jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com>
To:        jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon)
Cc:        jgrosch@sirius.com, terry@lambert.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Cluster Computing in BSD
Message-ID:  <199705152200.PAA20921@superior.mooseriver.com>
In-Reply-To: <19970515161439.54599@right.PCS> from Jonathan Lemon at "May 15, 97 04:14:39 pm"

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Jonathan Lemon said:
>On May 05, 1997 at 01:18:16PM -0700, Josef Grosch wrote:
>> showcase their technical mastery to loose money while the remainder of the
>> organization does very well. Fujitsu's mainframe division is doing very
>> well, eating Amdahl's lunch.
>
>Eating their lunch?  Fujitsu owns 49% of Amdahl.  All chip fabrication and
>masking for Amdahl machines is done in FJ's labs.  In fact, any Amdahl 
>machine after the 5995M is not even designed by Amdahl any more, it is 
>designed by FJ, and re-marketed by Amdahl.
>
>Amdahl doesn't really have a mainframe business any more, it's FJ's business.
>They aren't even independent any more, having been partially swallowed up 
>by Sun, IIRC.

Thank you. I stand corrected.

Josef

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