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another bites the dust (well at least for a while
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 1994 13:36:45 -0500
WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) -- Kendall Square Research Corp., which dropped out of the supercomputer business in the fall, said Friday it was filing for bankruptcy protection. ... The seven-year-old company also said William I. Koch, Kendall Square's largest shareholder, resigned as chairman of the board of directors and as a director. .. The company is one of several to fall victim of consolidation in the supercomputer industry. Earlier this summer, Thinking Machines Corp. of Cambridge began a Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring. Both Kendall Square and Thinking Machines were early developers of parallel processing design, based on the use of dozens to hundreds of processors working together. Larger computer makers such as IBM and Cray Research have since brought out machines of similar design. Koch, one of the richest men in the United States and the winner of the 1992 America's Cup in yachting, has holdings in electrical generating plants, coal, petroleum and real estate.
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