Sujet : Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.archDate : 19. May 2025, 02:56:50
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On Mon, 19 May 2025 01:08:11 +0000, quadibloc wrote:
Yes, but the CDC 6600 and 7600, while powerful computers, were ordinary
computers. They were not vector machines.
They were pipelined machines. They were orders of magnitude faster than
anything from IBM. They pioneered the very concept of a “supercomputer”.
There was nothing “ordinary” about that.