Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: burton@tera.com (Burton Smith)
Subject: Re: What caused TMC to file Chapter 11?
Organization: /etc/organization
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 1995 01:25:43 GMT
Message-ID: <3gogrp$4ar@berk.tera.com>

In article <mvidalD2ypFp.Cu3@netcom.com> mvidal@netcom.com (mike vidal) writes:

>the end of the cold war + the end of the "evil empire" 

I disagree -- the government's need for HPC has increased, if anything.
The CM-5 was far too hard to write programs for, so it didn't sell --
even to the people who need that kind of performance most.

Sometimes a market shrinks because of inadequate supply rather than
insufficient demand.

Burton


