HP Destroys a Dream Computer to Save It

Re:HP Destroys a Dream Computer to Save It by serve_yay on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @01:30PM (#9687273)

People bitch about Apple being driven by marketing but I really just read an entire article where the author credulously used the phrase "the Machine" throughout.

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Re:HP Destroys a Dream Computer to Save It by swalsh on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @03:29PM (#9688032)

But that's actually the name of the product! http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/systems-research/themachine/

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Re:HP Destroys a Dream Computer to Save It by PhantomGremlin on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @07:11PM (#9689128)

When I read the headline I immediately thought of When HARLIE Was One[1] and of the Great Machine[2] from Babylon 5.

Apparently some people at HP are also Sci-Fi fans.

Edit: BTW I think it was Henry Spencer who, long ago, quipped something like "it's not a supercomputer unless it costs a billion dollars". Looks like they're actually budgeting for half of that so with inevitable cost overruns they might get there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Harlie_Was_One [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Machine

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Re:HP Destroys a Dream Computer to Save It by uxcn on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @11:32PM (#9689908)

Is it actually named after the machine on Epsilon 3, or is it just a coincidence? There's a B-Film called The Machine as well.

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Re:HP Destroys a Dream Computer to Save It by OedipusRex on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @03:26PM (#9688012)

They realize that this product is far from being a reality and calling it anything other than "the Machine" would imply they are farther along in R&D or even production than they are.

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