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From: jjn@hare.cdc.com (jj needham 234-4312)
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Subject: Re: 64 bits (long winded editorial)
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Date: 5 Sep 90 21:00:58 GMT
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In article <2486@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <25414@shamash.cdc.com> jjn@hare.udev.cdc.COM (jj needham 234-4312) writes:
>
>|                                       One thing CDC does not have, competition 
>| in the 64-bit production OS market.
>
>  Has something happened to Cray?
>-- 
>bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
>    VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.

Fair enough.  I had considered mentioning Cray, SCS, and Convex, but I guess
I was thinking more along the lines of general purpose machines;VAX,370,
B5000.  The Cray isn't usally considered a general purpose computer, usually.

CDC marketed Cyber 180s in response to what people do on a Vax, just about
anything.  The Vax has such a head start in C applications, that it was
always hard to compete on these terms.  The ETA part of CDC product line
was what I would equate with the Cray.  

later,jeff
jeff




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