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From: jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman)
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Subject: Re: architectural goals, Byte Addressability And Beyond
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 09:40 +0100 (BST)
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In article <v3lqfs$48om$3@dont-email.me>, ldo@nz.invalid (Lawrence
D'Oliveiro) wrote:

> . . . there were other entirely separate companies, like CDC 
> where Seymour Cray invented the concept of the _supercomputer_, 
> much to the surprise of his upper management who just wanted 
> to sell _business_ machines.

Another view is that the supercomputer was implicit in the needs of the
US nuclear weapons laboratories to do simulations of their designs.
Computers are much cheaper than nuclear testing.

John