Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: libor@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Libor)
Subject: Re: SIMD Hardware Vendors
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: 29 May 1995 05:59:00 GMT
Message-ID: <3qbnr4$kun@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>

In article <3nlii9$i8r@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>, joel@ssd.intel.com (Joel Clark) writes:
|> In article <3n36sj$jrq@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> mllombard@aol.com (MLLombard) writes:
|> >Thinking Machine Corp. Cambridge, MA.  The CM-1, introduced in 1987
|> >was SIMD.  Its follow-on product is a MIMD system.
|> 
|> TMC is no longer in business.

 Yes we are. We filed chapter 11 last September, but we are still selling
systems, software, and support. We just sold a 256 node CM5 earlier this
month. I can't say much, but things are looking up. We're not dead yet :-) 


-Libor

Libor Michalek
System Support Engineer
Thinking Machines Corporation
libor@think.com

