Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers

On Mon, 19 May 2025 03:12:12 +0000, quadibloc wrote:

Eventually, IBM caught up with the Control  Data 6600 by perfecting
pipelining in the IBM 360/91 ...

After promising it for something like two years (originally as the
360/90), and making claims that it would leave the CDC machine for dead,
telling potential customers for the latter to just wait for the IBM
alternative, it’ll be better, cross our trustworthy corporate hearts.

CDC sued IBM over the FUD campaign and the lost sales. And against all the
predicted odds, they won.