29 May
2011
29 May
'11
11:41 a.m.
In article <4DE209C6.24926.7919F at cclist.sydex.com>,
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> writes:
On 29 May 2011 at 10:20, William Donzelli wrote:
Are you talking about the ES-1?
The Transputer story reflects the whole MPP
industry of the 1980s -
lots of neat ideas, and lots of "close, but no cigars". Meiko, Convex
Exemplar, Thinking Machines, Maspar. Lots of what we learned falls
into "what not to do" territory.
Add to that Evans and Sutherland. Though they managed to hang on as
a company by recognizing their weaknesses.
Exactly the opposite case could be made; they sold off all their
productive business units and kept the underperforming ones.
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