Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!deimos.cis.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!uwvax!rang From: rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: S E Y M O U R C R A Y ---- Where is he ????? Message-ID: Date: 17 Mar 90 18:41:25 GMT References: <863@jc3b21.UUCP> <1405@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk> Sender: news@spool.cs.wisc.edu Organization: UW-Madison CS department Lines: 28 In-reply-to: cs86eew@cc.brunel.ac.uk's message of 14 Mar 90 13:40:09 GMT In article <1405@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk> cs86eew@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Eoin Woods) writes: >In article <863@jc3b21.UUCP> david@jc3b21.UUCP (David Quarles) writes: >>I just want to know what he is doing. I heard that he has quit his job >>with Cray computers and that the stock prices have dropped about $6.00. >> >I believe that Seymour Cray came to an agreement with Cray Research that he >would leave the company to develop his ideas for the Cray III machine. His >new company is called Cray something too - I can't remember what the something >is at the moment. The Cray III project was basically spun off into a new company, Cray Computers, which is in Colorado (at Cray Research's old site there, I believe). I don't know the details of the arrangements; I believe that Cray Research will handle marketing of Cray Computer's systems. (I was under the impression that Cray Computers was at least partially owned by Cray Research, and simply under different management.) Cray Research will continue developing systems as well, following up the X-MP and Y-MP line (which were not developed by Seymour Cray). It's been a while since I read all about this in the paper, so take the above with a grain of salt. My only connection with Cray Research was working there as a summer intern a few years back. Anton +---------------------------+------------------+-------------+ | Anton Rang (grad student) | rang@cs.wisc.edu | UW--Madison | +---------------------------+------------------+-------------+