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Article #10815Re: ILIAC and old parallel machines
From: Samuel A. Fineberg
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:15
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:15
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In article <mcdonald.604@aries.scs.uiuc.edu>, mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald) writes: |> In article <mcdonald.603@aries.scs.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald) writes: |> |> |> >Do you mean the Illiac IV? Presumably, yes. |> |> >It was an odd multiprocessor beastie. |> |> Sorry folks, for all those horrible typos. I was stupid to do it while |> needing to run to a meeting. |> |> It was a wonderfully quaint machine and I loved it a lot. Quaint, |> and baroque. |> |> Doug McDonald They have some peices of it on display at the CCF here. The funny part is that I heard they had to break it apart with sledge hammers to get it out of the door when they were dismantleing it. Sam
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Newsgroups: comp.arch Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!data.nas.nasa.gov!wilbur.nas.nasa.gov!fineberg From: fineberg@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Samuel A. Fineberg) Subject: Re: ILIAC and old parallel machines References: <926@felix.Sublink.Org> <mcdonald.603@aries.scs.uiuc.edu> <mcdonald.604@aries.scs.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@nas.nasa.gov (News Administrator) Organization: CSC, NASA Ames Research Center, NAS Division Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 23:15:00 GMT Message-ID: <1992Dec11.231500.15050@nas.nasa.gov> Reply-To: fineberg@nas.nasa.gov Lines: 20