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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers
Date: Mon, 19 May 2025 01:56:50 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 19 May 2025 01:08:11 +0000, quadibloc wrote:

> Yes, but the CDC 6600 and 7600, while powerful computers, were ordinary
> computers. They were not vector machines.

They were pipelined machines. They were orders of magnitude faster than 
anything from IBM. They pioneered the very concept of a “supercomputer”.

There was nothing “ordinary” about that.