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To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (14411)2/21/1999 10:10:00 PM
From: chirodoc  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 64865
 
rusty, thanks for the info on sunw and linux
makes me even more bullish on their "open" awareness
might sell down some of my msft and buy a bit more sunw
long term sunw may have the better growth rate
especially with the move to OOS and java/jini

thanks

curtis



To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (14411)2/21/1999 11:29:00 PM
From: Sonki  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 64865
 
rusty, it's great to see companies you mentioned supporting linux.

this is a great info. i hope u put in on the sunw news thread.

also this is a great post for the news thread..
Message 7948320

techstocks look like they are ready to move forward. but we may remain in a trading range untill 4/15 or so till new sets of erning and splits for these stocks come thru.



To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (14411)2/22/1999 12:55:00 AM
From: Rusty Johnson  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 64865
 
The Cold War Yields a Superchip

by Leander Kahney
Wired Online
5:50 p.m. 19.Feb.99.PST

A team that built supercomputers for the Soviet military in the Cold War has reportedly designed a chip that promises to be more powerful than anything the West can muster.

But the company is too broke to build it.

Led by Boris Babaian, the so-called "Father of Soviet Supercomputing," the engineers at Russia's Elbrus International have designed a chip that bears a resemblance to Intel's and Hewlett Packard's next-generation Merced processor. But this design would outperform that processor by a factor of three.


wired.com

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Diefendorff said the Russians told him the E2k will be compatible with both the x86 and Merced architectures, thanks to a binary compiler patented by Babaian.

"This is a bunch of very smart guys. They have the knowledge and the mathematics behind them, but not the manufacturing capabilities."

According to press reports, Elbrus has been looking for financing since 1996. Since the early 1990s, the company has worked with a number of Silicon Valley firms, primarily Sun Microsystems.

Neither Elbrus, nor Sun Microsystems, could be reached for comment.