2 Nov
1998
2 Nov
'98
12:38 a.m.
After more than 25 years, I am not certain of
anything. But if Cray had a
hand in the CDC 6000s, and he was still around CDC at the time the
STAR 100 was designed and built, I would certainly think that he was
also involved in the STAR 100 as well. I thought I saw an article about
the STAR 100 recently which described the circular nature of the physical
rack which was required in order to reduce to length of the wires which
interconnected the different parts of the system. Evidently, it was rather
cold in the centre of the whole thing.
The followup to the 7600 was to be circular. See
<http://www.research.microsoft.com/barc/gbell/craytalk/sld057.htm>.
William Donzelli
william(a)ans.net