On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:10:30 +0100, Alan B. Pearce wrote:

> >> Then someone else started making a code compatible system ...
> >
> >Hitachi, wasn't it - early 1980s?
> 
> I understood it was the Cray - Cray himself had worked at IBM on their
> mainframe development, and when he went to setup the Cray Supercomputer
> company, he used the IBM model as the underlying system.

I don't think any of Cray's machines were IBM-compatible - he concentrated on high speed processing, rather 
than trying to "steal" IBM's customers wheras Hitachi, if I remember correctly, did precisely that!

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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