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From: sandee@loligo (Daan Sandee (SCRI))
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: CDC/Cray Museum (was CDC 6600 ...)
Summary: let's keep nostalgia where it belongs
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Date: 13 Apr 90 21:18:45 GMT
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In article <656@fsu.scri.fsu.edu> sandee@loligo (Daan Sandee (SCRI)) writes:
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>More nostalgia ... The 1700 was CDC's first 8-bit byte /ASCII computer,
[bla bla bla]
Sorry .. there's been so much reminiscing on comp.sys.cdc lately, I thought
that's where I was when I posted. I wasn't meaning to be so effusive on
comp.arch, which belongs to computers of the future, not of the past.
There's nothing much interesting architecture-wise about the CDC1700.

Daan Sandee                                           sandee@scri1.scri.fsu.edu
Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052  (904) 644-7045