Re: architectural goals, Byte Addressability And Beyond

On Wed, 5 Jun 2024 09:40 +0100 (BST)
jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) wrote:

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

Another view is that Lawrence D'Oliveiro made it up.
Reading Wikipedia article, it looks like CDC never had much of the
"business machines" business. What they had were "business machine's
peripherals" business and government/scientific machines business. Also
they offered public cloud services, but that part of the company was
losing money earned by other divisions.