Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!beta!a!jlg
From: jlg@a.UUCP (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: FORTRAN Horror
Message-ID: <541@a.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 88 22:42:00 GMT
References: <24861@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <1135@pembina.UUCP> <704@xyzzy.UUCP>
Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M.
Lines: 16
Summary: Cray and Cobol

In article <704@xyzzy.UUCP>, meissner@xyzzy.UUCP (Usenet Administration) writes:
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> other.  Of course, nowadays, you can fit 18 decimal digits in a 64 bit
> binary register (so does that make a Cray a good Cobol machine :-).

The Cray has proved amenable to all other languages that have been used on
it.  Why wouldn't it make a good Cobol machine?

J. Giles
Los Alamos

P.S.  O.K. the Cray Y-MP is not C-shaped.  The TIME photo showed two 
curved bays on either side that I just assumed would meet in back to 
for the Cray C-shape we're so familiar with.  I still like it - it has
seats on the outboard power supplies (the ones for the IOS and the SSD).
Supercomputers should be required to double as machine-room furniture!