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| Authored by: Steve Martin on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 11:47 AM EDT |
There's also one on display at the Computer History Museum in Mountain
View, California.
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| Authored by: mcinsand on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 12:33 PM EDT |
| >>Now that's what a computer is supposed to look like.
I dunno. I prefer
the FSQ-7, even though I
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| Authored by: red floyd on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 04:12 PM EDT |
Don't forget the apocryphal built-in beer cooler. The space under the seat was
allegedly also refrigerated (as a side effect).
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| Authored by: betajet on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 08:12 PM EDT |
From memory, probably apocryphal:
One day back in 1980s (IIRC) the sales manager at the Cray Research office in
San Francisco got a call from the receptionist: "Uh, there are two guys in
blue jeans out here who say they want to buy a Cray computer. What should I
do?"
Well, he didn't have anything else to do so he told her to send them in. It
turned out they were from Apple Computer, and wanted to buy a Cray to help
design the next generation of Apples. He told them that Crays were very
expensive, and they said they realized that.
So the three of them configured a system and the sales manager quoted them
the price. They said "Fine, how soon can we get it?"
He explained that Crays were hand-made and it would take around 3 months.
One of the Apple guys said "What if write you a check today?"
The salesman said "Let me make some phone calls".
Bottom line: Apple was able to get their Cray in one week.
So someone asked Seymour Cray what tools he used to design his computers. He
said he mostly designed them by hand, with pencil and paper. "Oh, I also
have a Macintosh I use for documentation."
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 10:55 PM EDT |
Error in that article:
"by comparison, a modern Sandy Bridge Core i5 or i7 CPU can perform around
100-200 gigaflops."
Lesse, assuming no memory bottlenecks and about 3 gig clock and 8 threads - and
one clock per flop...3x8 = 24. Not 100-200 - for that you use a many-core GPU.
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