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To: Edward Smyth who wrote (4870)	5/14/1998 5:37:00 PM
From: Mark Dalton	Respond to of 14451

I don't see the reason for divesting a portion of the company that is profitable (but perhaps by a lower margin). The Cray side offers scalability to over 1000-2000 Dec ALpha CPUS on the T3Es.. the best f90 compilers (scientific programmers require), extensive testing, tape, special devices, high speed/bandwidth networks, etc. Much of the Cray technology... compilers, optimization, science libraries have been ported to the SGIs. Also SGI-Cray is a merge now.. there are just as many 'Cray' people working on Irix as are working on the 'crays'. The point is there is no longer 'cray', except when you talk about hardware.. That you see in the future Origin line.. SV2s (vector..). Mark