From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 95 08:51:30 PDT
To: patrick@verity.com (Patrick Horgan)
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Patrick Horgan writes:
> How much you want to bet that a first copy goes to virginia?

I'm not sure that the NSA actually would want machines on that scale
these days. Its probably a lot more economical to throw your money
into lots of much smaller machines and occassionally link them up via
networks. Unlike physics simulation problems, most crypto problems
don't involve tight communication between the parallel processors, so
the extra expense that the high speed buses represent would end up
being a waste.

Perry