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[email protected] (Farley, Peter x23353) writes: > CDC certainly made processors. DOD used CDC 6600's extensively for > "defense" planning in the late 60's and 70's, as they were the fastest > numerical/mathematical machines of their era. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#9 Assembler Question there are some old references about cray (and thornton) doing cdc 66000 ... and then Cray left and formed Cray computer ... and Thornton left and formed Network Systems Corporation. NSC was eventually bought by STK ... which was subsequently acquired by SUN. some past posts referencing my high-speed data transport (HSDT) project where we used some number of NSC HYPERChannel boxes: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt some part of 6600 past thread in a.f.c (with some references): http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#73 Remembering the CDC 6600 6600 wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_6600 "Parallel operation in the Control Data 6600" (by Thornton) http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/Computer_Structures__Readings_and_Examples/00000509.htm scan of Thornton's 6600 document on bitsave.org: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/cdc/6x00/thornton_6600_paper.pdf some specific posts mentioning Thornton: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#13 CDC6600 - just how powerful a machine was it? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005k.html#15 3705 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#49 IBM's mini computers--lack thereof http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#14 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#22 Channel Distances http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#37 Is SUN going to become x86'ed ?? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#38 Welcome to Rain Matrix: The Cloud Computing Network -- 40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar70 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
