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From: sauer@dell.dell.com (Charlie Sauer)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: DMA on RISC-based systems
Message-ID: <1429@dell.dell.com>
Date: 3 Jun 89 13:25:48 GMT
References: <46500067@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <28200325@mcdurb> <2819@scolex.sco.COM>
Reply-To: sauer@dell.UUCP (Charlie Sauer, )
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In article <2819@scolex.sco.COM> seanf@scolex.UUCP (Sean Fagan) writes:
>Well, more than 20 years ago, a machine was built which had smart I/O ...
>...
>For those of you who haven't guessed, the machine was the CDC Cyber,
>designed (chiefly) by Seymour Cray (God).  The machine I played on mostly
>was a Cyber 170/760, ...

Until I got to the punch line, I was sure you were going to say "CDC 6600,"
which was the first of that series of machines.  I'm at home and can't lay
my hands on Thornton's book ("Design of the CDC 6600" I think was the title),
and I didn't actually use a 6600 until 1970, but it seems like you would have
to say 6600, or at least 7600, to make the "more than 20 years" accurate.
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