Re: architectural goals, Byte Addressability And Beyond

In article <v3lqfs$48om$3@dont-email.me>, ldo@nz.invalid (Lawrence
D'Oliveiro) wrote:

. . . there were other entirely separate companies, like CDC
where Seymour Cray invented the concept of the _supercomputer_,
much to the surprise of his upper management who just wanted
to sell _business_ machines.

Another view is that the supercomputer was implicit in the needs of the
US nuclear weapons laboratories to do simulations of their designs.
Computers are much cheaper than nuclear testing.

John