Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!altnet!altos86!nate
From: nate@altos86.UUCP (Nathaniel Ingersoll)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: A Recently Heard Story About Seymour Cray
Keywords: Cray,Mackintosh,Mac,Design
Message-ID: <758@altos86.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 88 19:10:33 GMT
References: <90@stanton.TCC.COM> <2054@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU>
Reply-To: nate@altos86.UUCP (Nathaniel Ingersoll)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA
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In article <2054@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU> nlp@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Nick Pine) writes:
[Seymour Cray legends]
:	3. SC visited a beta site for a large (6600?) computer which was having
:           problems, listened to descriptions of those problems, which had
:	   plagued everyone for weeks, ordered everyone out of the computer
:	   room, sat for 2 hours and 21 minutes, called everyone back in, and
:	   said "change THIS wire," pointing to a schematic, and went back to
:	   Chippewa Falls. The change was made, and the problem was solved.

From the old story, "Real Programmers don't use Pascal" came a blurb
about how Cray keyed in the entire 6Kword operating system of one of the
earlier CDC computers he designed, from memory, using the front panel
switches.

Anyone have that article?

:--Nick

-- 
Nathaniel Ingersoll
Altos Computer Systems, SJ CA
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