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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Chipsandcheese article on the CDC6600
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2024 22:01:59 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 07:35:55 -0600, John Savard wrote:

> That bit at the end, about how the world  would need maybe only ten
> computers, because the 6600 is so powerful, and out-of-order machines
> running at 5 GHz would never be needed, of course, is the funny part...

Also a dig at IBM, from whose (early) boss (Watson Sr?) the quote about 
the world only needing ten computers is supposed to have originated.

The 6600 (and its siblings) also popularized the term “supercomputer”. 
When people at the time thought “computer”, they thought “IBM”. But here 
was a machine that was so far ahead in performance, it left IBM (and 
everybody else) in the dust.