* Posts by Michael McGinty

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Remembering the Cray-1

Michael McGinty

Reminants of this machine and the CDC 6600 are still with us

I worked on the Scope OS for the CDC 6600 and later worked on vectorization on the Cray-1. Great machines at the time, but we only need to look at the floating point processors of the Intel x86 cpu's to see the ghost of Cray's legacy. The floating point registers and instructions look very much like the CDC 6400.