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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Jun 2024 09:40 +0100 (BST), John Dallman wrote:

>> Another view is that the supercomputer was implicit in the needs of the
>> US nuclear weapons laboratories to do simulations of their designs.

> And in code cracking. All very much a function of the Cold War.

> No coincidence that Cray’s fortunes took a downturn when that ended.

Cray sold the first CRAY-1 for $60M this is what the nuclear physicists
could afford; writing off the entire development costs.