[geeks] New Cray?

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 01:37:12PM -0400, Dan Sikorski wrote:
>How many years ago did Apple claim that the powermac was a 
>supercomputer?  I think we diluted the term a long time ago.

It wasn't Apple that did it. The US government issued a list of forbidden
technology that could not be exported, and supercomputers was one of the
things on that list. 

The G4 fit the current defintion of supercomputer from that list. 

Geoff.
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