UNIX SV reaches high places!
Joe Mueller
joemu at nsc-pdc.UUCP
Thu Jun 20 03:51:36 AEST 1985
[eat me]
I saw a demo of the CRAYII while I was in Minneapolis. The computer itself is
fairly small (about 3-4 feet tall and about 3 feet wide). It is cylindrical
in shape (similar to the CRAYI) but without the padded "seat" around it.
I don't remember a whole lot about it but here's what I remember:
1. it was a giga-flop machine
2. it was running System V (boy did those ps's run fast!)
3. the flourocarbon used was the same stuff doctors use for synthetic
blood
4. I believe they said it had a 4-5 nanosecond clock rate and because
of it they have to have all internal wires shorter than 9 inches
5. I sucks down 190 killowats of power
6. They consider their "C" compiler slow, they are working on
increasing it's performance (I think they said it "only" compiled
100k to 150k lines of code per minute) [I could live with that]
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