It simply doesn't seem that long ago that Neil
Lincoln was telling me
how wonderful his liquid nitrogen-cooled high-density CMOS vector
supercomputer was going to be in that it would be the first to break
the 10 Gflop mark. (This was the ill-fated ETA Systems one and only
ETA-10 supercomputer).
You have just made a classic big iron apples to oranges comparison.
Times certainly do change. Does anyone know what
became of very few
ETA-10's that were built? Museum or landfill?
The air cooled "Pipers" were the most common, with maybe a few dozen
(?) made. One ended up at a high school. I knew of another at a school
that was "improperly decommisioned" and stuffed in a back room to hide the
evidence. I do not know what happened to either one.
William Donzelli
aw288 at
osfn.org