Msg: 1244 *Conference*

01-05-92 18:28:31

From: JOE STEPHAN

To : ALL

Subj: WORLD'S FASTEST COMPUTER

        I saw an interesting piece today on one of CNN's science programs. They
showed a guy (didn't get the name) who heads the "Thinking Machine Corp." He
was branded a fanatic by colleagues and the industry for his obsession with his
theories. He refered to it as something like "massive parallel" (lack of
computer knowledge showing through by person posting this), which once proven
has produced the world's fastest computer. By being able to do many
jobs/calculations simultaneously, his computer can now do in _one_ minute what
it would take a PC two months!
 
Joe