On 28 Apr 2000, Johan Danielsson wrote:

> Eduardo Horvath <eeh@turbolinux.com> writes:
> 
> > Now that Cray's down the tubes where do you expect to get hardware
> > details on this beastie?
> 
> You mean: now that cray has a chance to do something serious instead
> of beeing bogged down by silly nt-machines. The fact that Tera changed
> name to Cray suggests that they want to be serious with it. What I've
> heard from Cray people, they seem to be quite happy with the
> acquisition.

No, I mean a company that's gone bankrupt and been sold, carved up, merged
with other companies, restructured and sold again.

> The sparc based line were sold to Sun when SGI bought Cray. Ask
> them. My impression of that deal was that Sun were more interested in
> the people working on them than the actual hardware, so chances are
> that they might actually give out info.

We're talking about a machine that's almost 10 years old and a company
that has changed hands at least once.  I'm not certain that the
information still exists.  I expect the group that worked on this machine
are probably part of Sun now.  Sun has a tendency to throw everything out
after about 5 years.  Hardware, documentation, you name it.  (The halls
get pretty clogged with old stuff during the anual Spring cleaning.)

Maybe you can get lucky and guys down in San Diego may like hanging on to
old documentation.  But I wouldn't spend $3.5K on that thing without
documentation firmly in hand.

Eduardo Horvath