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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: brash micros versus the Big Iron: not yet
Message-ID: <7470@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 11:15:07 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 28 11:15:07 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 29-Sep-87 07:02:03 EDT
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <954@edge.UUCP> doug@edge.UUCP (Doug Pardee) writes:
| ...
|I wonder if Seymour Cray knows that he's barking up the wrong tree by
|designing multiple-chip CPUs?  Somebody ought to tell him  :-)

Actually I think someone did. I read that his chief designer for
advanced products was "allowed to resign" when the single chip processor
was advocated over the multichip GaS version. Said designer then left to
form his own company.

This is an old story... when a company gets "mature" and conservative
people leave. Cray and Amdahl were other examples. If someone can find
the name of the engineer and any more details please post.

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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me