[geeks] New Cray?

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm at mendelson.com>
>Date: 2008/09/16 Tue PM 01:44:59 EDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] New Cray?

>On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 01:37:12PM -0400, Dan Sikorski wrote:
>>How many years ago did Apple claim that the powermac was a 
>>supercomputer?  I think we diluted the term a long time ago.
>
>It wasn't Apple that did it. The US government issued a list of forbidden
>technology that could not be exported, and supercomputers was one of the
>things on that list. 
>
>The G4 fit the current defintion of supercomputer from that list. 

Not sure if my earlier post made the list or not (mail client flakyness):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Eb1yih5kNY

Apple "Weapon" ad

Lionel