[geeks] New Cray?

nate at portents.com nate at portents.com
Tue Sep 16 13:25:52 CDT 2008


> I think we diluted the term a long time ago.

By 'we' you mean the US government, when they sought to limit the export
of "high-performance computers to upgrade existing weapons capabilities or
develop new ones" and thus created the specification for what they deemed
a 'supercomputer' which was then utilized by Apple in their PowerMac
marketing campaign?

- Nate



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