TECHNOLOGY - June 6, 1991

A Cambridge, Mass., company said it has developed the world’s speediest computer, a machine that could read a year’s worth of newspapers in the blink of an eye. The CM-200 developed by Thinking Machines Corp. can whiz through more than 9 billion calculations a second and can be used by as many as 100 engineers and scientists at a time, company officials said. At roughly $10 million each, it will be used mostly by government and industry for applications ranging from global weather prediction to oil exploration and automotive design.