8 Jun
2005
8 Jun
'05
12:01 p.m.
>>>> "William" == William
Donzelli <aw288 at osfn.org> writes:
> I wonder if it's a Cyber. Those of course
still exist in reality,
> as well as in emulation.
William> Why do you think it was a CDC? JPL had no need for speed for
William> these tapes.
For processing the data? Remember, I'm talking about the
postprocessing; it doesn't matter what system wrote the data.
Cybers were popular back then for people who expected to do serious
crunching, even if not all the time. That's the only reason I was
wondering -- it wasn't even as much as an assumption...
paul