Alliant Computer Systems Corp describes the introduction of its Intel 80860-based massively parallel Campus/800 system last November as a milestone, and says the impact on revenues has been immediate – 30% of the company’s fourth quarter sales were derived from the new machine and Alliant has high hopes that the system will account for some 50% of turnover by the end of the current year: Alliant has just turned in fourth quarter net profits of $2m against a loss of $3m on turnover down 36% at $11m. a loss is predicted for the first quarter 1992 due to the unpredictable timing of sales of the pricey Campus/800 systems, the first of which has just been announced as having gone to the University of Illinois Center for Supercomputing Research and Development, which is the proud owner of a 75-CPU model.
