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There's a good interview transcript with here at [1]. This is a great quote: > And then, as I said, the Cray computers came along. They started with 150K of me
by nl 4y ago
There's a good interview transcript with here at [1]. This is a great quote:
> And then, as I said, the Cray computers came along. They started with 150K of memory, or something like that, and everybody thought, “Boy, those are really [advanced]!” But even those, a lot of times, had problems on weekends. We’d have people run our problems, and we’d sign up for four or five hours for the problem to run, to get some results. Probably it wouldn’t even finish, and they dumped the data onto a tape, and the next weekend—because a lot of times long problems would not be run except on weekends—you would pick it up. Also, for your own sake, when you were running your problem, after an hour or two you would dump it—because in case the machine went down, you lost [your interim results]
[1] https://ethw.org/Oral-History:Mary_Tsingou_Menzel https://ethw.org/Oral-History:Mary_Tsingou_Menzel