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From: jps@wucs1.wustl.edu (James Sterbenz)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: CDC 8600
Keywords: CDC 8600
Message-ID: <791@wucs1.wustl.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 89 18:06:23 GMT
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Reply-To: jps@wucs1.UUCP (James Sterbenz)
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis, MO
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In article <7948@super.ORG> mjt@super.UUCP (Michael J. Tighe) writes:
>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 thought that the 8600 was the name for Cray's 7600 successor machine,
while he was still at CDC.  This was in compitition with the STAR-100,
which Norris decided was the way CDC wanted to go.  Cray took the 8600
(with CDC's blessing and support) to become the Cray-1.  This would
be about the right time, but was there any working hardware before
Cray broke off? 

Or is it possible that CDC considered calling the STAR the 8600
(but doesn't sound like the right foot-print)?

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