dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) (12/19/83)
From UNIX Review, Issue #2, p. 94, under the heading
"Newer rumours":
"The Cray 1, world's fastest computer, is running on UNIX at Bell Labs
in Murray Hill on a high-speed network that uses VAX-11/780's as front
ends. One source tell me that the Cray is so fast you can send a program
to the Cray over the network and have it compiled in less time than
it takes to *retrieve the compiler from disk* on the VAX."
Wow. Is this true?
Dave Sherman
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{allegra,cornell,decvax,ihnp4,linus,utzoo}!utcsrgv!daveber@gummo.UUCP (12/21/83)
#R:utcsrgv:-297400:gummo:44000001:000:79 gummo!ber Dec 21 01:38:00 1983 I heard that the Cray is so fast it can execute an infinite loop in 6 seconds!
chongo@nsc.UUCP (Landon Noll) (12/29/83)
>"The Cray 1, world's fastest computer, is running on UNIX at i >Bell Labs in Murray Hill on a high-speed network that uses >VAX-11/780's as front ends. since when can a Cray 1 do over 800,000,000 floating point operations per second? the figures and benchmarks show the Cyber 205 as being faster... (this is not to note the god-less Cray 1 instruction set, the brain damaged 1/x unit...) chongo <just dispelling a wrong rumor> /\../\ p.s. i have heard things about a Cyber 208... and CDC folks out there to comment? p.p.s. what has happened to the idea of UN*X for the Cyber 200 systems?
mab@bnl.UUCP (Michael A. Bloom) (01/08/84)
Control Data will also be offering UNIX. It will run underneath VM-NOS, the native OS for the 64 bit Cyber 180 (800 Series) machines (which have so far been delivered running plain ol' NOS in 60-bit emulation mode). -- Michael A. Bloom ..!bnl!mab or mcb@mit-mc.arpa or mab@bnl