To: Distribution
From: David Kahaner ONRFE [kahaner@xroads.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp]
Re: Sale of SX-3 to National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) of Holland
Date: 19 Sept 1990

NEC has announced that a one processor version of their new SX-3 has been 
ordered by the National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) of Holland.  NLR has 
ordered a model 12, which has one processor and two arithmetic functional 
units. NEC calculates that peak performance is 2.75 Gigaflops. NLR 
already has an SX-2, and compatibility with existing software is a major 
reason for this order. Delivery is scheduled in April 1990.  This the 
second foreign SX-3 sale, the first was to Koln University in West 
Germany.  

NEC has stated that their goal for the SX-3 is to sell 120 machines in 
four years, about half outside Japan.  

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