Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: sandee@Think.COM (Daan Sandee)
Subject: Re: The largest CM-5 built
Organization: TMC
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 14:59:31 GMT
Message-ID: <47l7sj$46r@bone.think.com>

In article <47f609$afd@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>, pnm@cs.rmit.edu.au (Paul Big-Ears Menon) writes:
|> In <477r4q$k8u@bone.think.com> sandee@Think.COM (Daan Sandee) writes:
|> 
|>     >Daan Sandee                                           sandee@think.com
|>     >Thinking Machines Corporation
|>     >Bedford, MA (really)
|> 
|> You guys still alive?  I thought Thinking had entered that feared
|> chapter in business history.  What gives?

TMC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in August of 1994, and
has since been working on a reorganization. I can't say anything about
the prospects of getting out of Chapter 11 again ; however, there is no
chance of it turning into a real bankruptcy (as happened with others 
in the industry.)
(Chaper 11 is U.S. company law, but I am sure your country has something
similar. It puts a company under control of a court and prevents creditors
from declaring it bankrupt.)
Contrary to public perception, TMC never stopped selling and supporting
massively parallel computers. It may surprise you to hear that of the 
100+ installed systems of 1994, the vast majority are still up and running 
with an active maintenance contract. 
For other publicly available information, see http://www.think.com.

Daan Sandee                                           sandee@think.com
Thinking Machines Corporation
Bedford, MA 
(Not speaking for the company.)


