Intel Corp’s agreement to have Digital Equipment Corp resell its 80860 RISC-based massively parallel processors is dead because DEC found little interest from the market, Electronic News reports. But Intel insists that DEC was still showing interest in marketing the follow-on Paragon machine and that it pulled the plug on the deal because it was not satisfied with DEC’s level of commitment. DEC’s massively parallel activities have been moved from corporate research to its mainstream computer operations and clustering, as in its recent agreement with Encore Computer Corp, is the current DEC watchword.
