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From: tdg@hall.cray.com (Terry Greyzck)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: A Recently Heard Story About Seymour Cray
Keywords: Cray,Design
Message-ID: <12281@hall.cray.com>
Date: 20 Dec 88 15:47:27 GMT
References: <90@stanton.TCC.COM> <1971@mcf.UUCP>
Reply-To: tdg@hall.UUCP (Terry Greyzck)
Organization: Cray Research, Inc., Mendota Heights, MN
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In article <1971@mcf.UUCP> shan@mcf.UUCP (Sharan Kalwani) writes:
>a colleague standing next me and remarked, "You know the Cray-2 gives
>new meaning to the term <floating point operation>!"
>
There are other comments of that type, like how the CRAY-2 was designed
with transparent front panels so you could see more Cray.

And how it is the first machine with true bubble memory.

Hey, don't shoot, I wasn't the inventor of these!

Terry