In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/06/2007
   at 08:26 PM, Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>IBM a few years ago introduced a 3838 (?) for number crunching. IIRC 
> it went down in flames.

The vector facility of the 3090 replaced it.

>There did not seem to be a market for such an animal.

Then why did IBM bother with the VF?
 
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