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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!mdisea!uw-coco!uw-beaver!tera.com!news
  3. From: bob@tera.com (Bob Alverson)
  4. Subject: Re: What are people paying for when they by a s
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov16.160954.8409@tera.com>
  6. Sender: news@tera.com (News Administrator)
  7. Reply-To: bob@tera.com
  8. Organization: Tera Computer Company, Seattle, WA
  9. References: <1992Nov15.201147.5302@athena.mit.edu>
  10. Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:09:54 GMT
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  13. In article 5302@athena.mit.edu, solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:
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  15. > My question is, when people buy supercomputers at $250,000 per GFLOP, what are
  16. > they getting in addition to computational power?
  17. > 
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  19. Memory bandwidth!
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