FPGAs and Heat (Re: Paranoid Musings)

[Dave Koontz]

>The current Thinking Machines is a software firm, and Daniel Hillis is no
>longer amongst the top management.  The name lives on, but the business
>of designing, building, and selling exotic supercomputers is kaput.

>Not an uncommon story in the computer business.  Even Control Data
>Corporation still exists in a transmogrified form, although their
>mainframe business went up in smoke ages ago. 

MasPar still exists as a software company, they changed the name
however.