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Seymour Cray, the penultimate "tall, thin man."
- pg 17y agoWho's the ultimate?
- ivankirigin 17y agoCarver Mead. Didn't make it to slide 2? :) http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/craytalk/sld002.htm http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/craytalk...
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- jfischer 17y agoBest quote: Last week Control Data ... announced the 6600 system. I understand that in the laboratory developing the system there are only 34 people including the janitor. Of these, 14 are engineers and 4 are programmers ... Contrasting this modest effort with our vast development activities, I fail to understand why we have lost our industry leadership position by letting someone else offer the world's most powerful computer. -- Thomas Watson, IBM, Aug 1963 (slide 44) It seems like Mr. Watson has answered his own question. -- Cray's response I started my career in hardware, and Cray was always one of my heroes.
- ScottWhigham 17y agoHe is the "next to last tall, thin man"? Now that makes no sense... * http://www.wisegeek.com/what-does-penultimate-mean.htm http://www.wisegeek.com/what-does-penultimate-mean.htm * http://betterppt.typepad.com/betterpresentingcom/2009/03/eight-grammar-errorsall-in-one-post.html http://betterppt.typepad.com/betterpresentingcom/2009/03/eig...