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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: A Recently Heard Story About Seymour Cray
Message-ID: <3093@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: 15 Dec 88 20:01:52 GMT
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In article <813@munmurra.mu.oz>, pjt@munmurra.mu.oz (Peter John Treloar) writes:
> I saw a reference to this in "Cray Channels" which is a glossy cray publication.
> Hence is Cray Research says its true then it must be ;-).

(I think you mean "if" not "is")

I don't know about now, but I've seen tongue-in-cheek stuff from Cray before.
(The less polite would call it bullsh*tting.)  Like the way that the balance
of the signal propagation delays in the DIGITAL LOGIC in a Cray-1 causes a
a load with 0 power factor to be presented to the AC POWER LINE (think about
it; think about how power supplies are implemented; and think about the semi-
literate computer science hack who doesn't know much about electrical engi-
neering and eats that kind of stuff up like it was from Moses).

So is Cray really using a Macintosh to design Crays?  Who knows?  You'd think
they would use the power of existing Crays to design other Crays but then....
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