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I always thought they were named after the Cray twins. Not sure why.

• qubex 10y ago
  You'd never heard of supercomputing legend Seymour Cray?! I find that really hard to believe.
  • sgift 10y ago
    On the other hand, I hadn't heard of the Cray twins before. Each day we learn something new.
    • _asummers 10y ago
      That's partly because they're the Kray twins, though I had never heard of them before, either. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kray_twins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kray_twins
      • rcv 10y ago
        The Tom Hardy movie Legend is about the Kray twins (he plays both), and is well worth watching if you haven't seen it.
        • _asummers 10y ago
          I have not! Seems to be on HBO, currently. I'll check it out.
  • castis 10y ago
    Can you explain why this concept is difficult for you to believe?
    • qubex 10y ago
      Because this is Hacker News and there's so few superstar supercomputer architects (Seymour Cray, Steve Chen, Daniel Hillis) that it should be possible to recite their life stories off the top of one's head.
      • castis 10y ago
        I've never heard of Steve Chen or Daniel Hills and I've been involved for about 15 years. It's absurd to expect everyone here to hold the same knowledge of the world as you.
  • throwfast1 10y ago
    https://www.xkcd.com/1053/ https://www.xkcd.com/1053/
    • qubex 10y ago
      I wasn't making fun of him. I genuinely thought he was joking.
• DonHopkins 10y ago
  That's Cray Cray!
  • teddyh 10y ago
    From 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6284886 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6284886
• deleted 10y ago
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