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From: jhf@lanl.ARPA (Joseph Fasel)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: Cray "A" processor
Message-ID: <3106@lanl.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 15-May-86 14:42:43 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 15 14:42:43 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 16-May-86 04:35:09 EDT
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Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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> I was going through old Communications of the ACM looking for interesting
> articles, and I found the January, 1978 issue, which has a special section
> on computer architecture, including an article on the Cray-I. On page 71,
> under the heading "Front-End Computer Interface", it says:
> 
>      Cray Reseaaarch software development is currently being done
>      using a Data General Eclipse computer [as a front end].  The
>      Cray Research "A" processor, a 16-bit, 80 MIPS minicomputer
> 					    ^^^^^^^
>      is scheduled to replace the Eclipse in early 1978.
> 
> Does anyone know what happened with this machine?  I assume that it
> was a Cray-I stripped of the vector and floating point hardware, and
> maybe also lacking multiply (Can you say RISC?  I knew you could.)
> -- 
> Mark Nelson
> mnl@cernvax.bitnet or ...!seismo!mcvax!cernvax!mnl
The A processor evolved into the I/O processor (IOP) of the Cray 1-S
and Cray X-MP.
--
Joe Fasel
jhf@lanl.{arpa,uucp}