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From: mjt@super.ORG (Michael J. Tighe)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: CDC 8600
Summary: What happened to the CDC 8600?
Keywords: CDC 8600
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Date: 8 Apr 89 16:46:23 GMT
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Does anyone have any information on the CDC 8600? I saw a picture of
it recently. About all I know is it was built around 1973, was an
N-gon type shape (about the same size as a Cray-3, but with more sides). 
And the modules were quite large (approximately 3" x 8" x 5").
 
I also heard it didn't work. That's why it was never put into
production. Any info on architecture, instruction set, chip type,
clock times or memory would be nice.
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