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Subject: Re: Information please: 'S1'
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Date: Wed, 11-Mar-87 12:44:27 EST
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Let me add to Ron's comments about the "other" S-1.

The S-1 project is a US Navy funded attempt to make a supercomputer out
at LLNL.  They are on the ARPAnet (sci.space is gatewayed thru an S-1
machine) and Usenet (I thought they would reply). The original S-1
project developed (as I recall) the SCALD
systems for CAD, for the purposes of a computer 16 times a Cray-1 in
power using 16 Cray class (36-bit addressing, but 72-bit data word)
CPUs connected via a cross-bar switch running a Unix like operating
system named Amber.  The architecture was like a DEC-10/20.  They went
from a Mark I design to a Mark II and I most recently heard of the IIa,
and they are going to a Mark III design in VLSI.  Some people would say
they are little better than the other S1.  You can read a little about
S-1 in the book entitled "Star Warriors."  The project was proposed in
the late 1970s by Lowell Wood of LLNL.  It seems by the time the S-1
gets completed, Cray-1s will be sitting on our desks, and Cray will mean
something else.

Star Wars is a trademark of Lucasfilm, Ltd.
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  NASA Ames Research Center
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