Olin,

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 08:47:01 -0400, Olin Lathrop wrote:

> Howard Winter wrote:
> > 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!
> 
> Didn't Amdahl (sp?) do it earlier than Hitachi?

Yup, that's dead right - I had an inkling that Hitachi wasn't first to do this, but my memory needs 
upgrading...

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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