Digital Equipment Corp will enter the market for massively parallel computers within a year, vice-president Robert Glorioso told the Wall Street Journal – but the entry may be with a partner rather than alone. MasPar Computer Corp, formed in Sunnyvale by former DEC engineer Jeffrey Kalb, is seen as the most likely partner, although DEC already has an agreement to collaborate on some sales with Thinking Machines Corp, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Glorioso said that DEC had been researching the technology for years and was concentrating on the software. First products are expected to be for scientific and technical markets.A Thinking Machines computer was hailed benchmarking at 5.2 GFLOPS.
