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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
					    ^^^^^^^
     is scheduled to replace the Eclipse in early 1978.

Does anyone know what happened with this machine?  I assume that it
was a Cray-I stripped of the vector and floating point hardware, and
maybe also lacking multiply (Can you say RISC?  I knew you could.)
I suppose it probably died because it was too expensive, and due to
a lack of software, since Un*x wasn't the obvious choice for an
operating system in 1978 that it is now, and I don't think Cray
Research had the resources to write their own mainstream operating
system.
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Mark Nelson

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