> Although I do recognize a similiar environment it sounds like a UNIVAC
> 9200 I worked on eons ago. BUT the 9200 was a 12k machine and came noplace > close to even processing at 1 mip and never was mistaken for a > supercomputer. Could also be one of the very early CDC machines. The "boot from tape, write to disk" was characteristic of those monsters. Also, didn't at least one version of the Sigma 9 also behave this way (although those machines certainly wouldn't class as a supercomputer, unless the alternative were rooms of people with slide rules...)? I don't remember. -- db
