[geeks] New Cray?

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com>
>Date: 2008/09/16 Tue PM 01:43:54 EDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] New Cray?

>Dan Sikorski wrote:
>> Mike Hebel wrote:
>>> *also pukes in bucket*
>>>
>>> That's _not_ a supercomputer no matter what anyone says.
>>>
>>> At that size it couldn't _possibly_ have the I/O capability of a proper
>>> supercomputer AND if it's running Windows it is DOA in my book for that
>>> purpose.
>>>   
>> How many years ago did Apple claim that the powermac was a 
>> supercomputer?  I think we diluted the term a long time ago.
>
>BTW, they only called it that tongue-in-cheek because the US 
>government's definition of the word was broad enough to be satisfied by 
>the Power Mac.

I think it was by virtue of the CPU they installed - i.e. you couldn't ship the CPU chip alone to certain countries...

It was a cute ad - at the time.

Lionel