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From: bjr@alliant.UUCP (Josh Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: Cray "A" processor
Message-ID: <257@alliant.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-May-86 14:24:57 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 14 14:24:57 1986
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Organization: Alliant Computer Systems, Acton, MA
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Summary: 


   I don't know what became of this machine,  but the rumor at the time
(at least at DG) was that the Cray front end processor was going to be a 
6 nsec NOVA.  The NOVA was the predessor to the ECLIPSE and had a very
RISC like instruction set.