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Subject: Re: Definition of supercomputing
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Date: 23 Aug 89 04:08:53 GMT
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In article <3217@garth.UUCP>, fouts@garth.ingr.com (Martin Fouts) writes...

| Life was so much easier when I was young.
| ...
| Some US machines which were considered supercomputers in their time,
| but aren't anymore, include the IBM 7090 (Stretch,) which may have
| been the first...

You're still young (lucky you), young enough at any rate to know that Stretch
was the IBM 7030, which predated the 7090.  Its design is the subject of an
excellent book "Planning a Computer System", edited by Werner Bucholz.  Last
time I looked at it, it wasn't dated, and it's superbly readable.

---Pete

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