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That's because Cray's didn't have MMUs much less paging functionality. All the jobs required manual shuffling around and even a certain amount of explicit bound
by pinewurst 5y ago
That's because Cray's didn't have MMUs much less paging functionality. All the jobs required manual shuffling around and even a certain amount of explicit bounds checking.
Essentially they were batch Fortran machines, CDC6600+++ with larger memories with modern-ish OS hacked onto them.