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In the thread below his preview post, Mashey added the following (edited for typos): "When I lead tours of Computer History Museum, I usually say there were 3
by smarks 2y ago
In the thread below his preview post, Mashey added the following (edited for typos):
"When I lead tours of Computer History Museum, I usually say there were 3 giants in the early decades of computer architecture:
Gene Amdhal - mainframes
Gordon Bell - minicomputers
Seymour Cray - supercomputers
and I was lucky to know the first two well, never met Cray."
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- 082349872349872 2y ago> never met Cray We lost Cray* to an untimely automobile accident. It'd be possible to have many fewer of those in the future, but that policy seems to be a much harder sell than I'd think it would be. * when the Mac team bragged they'd used a Cray to design their latest version (heat flow simulation IIRC), Cray humblebragged back that he'd used a Mac to design his latest version.