From: mpd@netcom.com (Mike Duvos)
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 05:00:23 +0800
To: adam@homeport.org (Adam Shostack)
Subject: Re: FPGAs and Heat (Re: Paranoid Musings)
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Adam Shostack wrote:

> | That's one of the things that killed Thinking Machines.  It turned out
> [...]
> | At the time Thinking Machines went under, Seymour Cray had a big contract
> 
> 	Just a nit, but Thinking Machines is still in business, and has
> had their first few profitable quarters. www.think.com

The current Thinking Machines is a software firm, and Daniel Hillis is no
longer amongst the top management.  The name lives on, but the business
of designing, building, and selling exotic supercomputers is kaput.

Not an uncommon story in the computer business.  Even Control Data 
Corporation still exists in a transmogrified form, although their
mainframe business went up in smoke ages ago. 

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