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Article #2492Re: Cray "A" processor
From: Eugene D. Brooks III
Date: Sat, 10 May 1986 23:59
Date: Sat, 10 May 1986 23:59
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In article <310@cernvax.UUCP> mnl@cernvax.UUCP (Mark Nelson) writes: >I was going through old Communications of the ACM looking for interesting >articles, and I found the January, 1978 issue, which has a special section >on computer architecture, including an article on the Cray-I. On page 71, >under the heading "Front-End Computer Interface", it says: > > Cray Reseaaarch software development is currently being done > using a Data General Eclipse computer [as a front end]. The > Cray Research "A" processor, a 16-bit, 80 MIPS minicomputer > ^^^^^^^ Take a look at the Cray 2, there are 4 back end processors which have the full Cray 2 instruction set. The front end cpu is a stripped instruction set job that probabably evolved from this work.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!orsvax1!pyrnj!caip!lll-crg!brooks From: brooks@lll-crg.ARpA (Eugene D. Brooks III) Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: Re: Cray "A" processor Message-ID: <1448@lll-crg.ARpA> Date: Sat, 10-May-86 19:59:53 EDT Article-I.D.: lll-crg.1448 Posted: Sat May 10 19:59:53 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 13-May-86 01:27:58 EDT References: <310@cernvax.UUCP> Reply-To: brooks@lll-crg.UUCP (Eugene D. Brooks III) Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, CRG Group Lines: 13