a cost-cutting measure

An even larger body of water separates the two continents of 'Hinduland' (India) and Confuciania (the Far East plus Indo—China) from each other and from the other continents.

The gigaflop supercomputers of today are almost useless. What is needed is a teraflop machine. That’s a machine that can run at a trillion flops, a trillion floating-point operations per second, or roughly a thousand times as fast as Cray Y-MP8.

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