Fw: Control Data Cyber 960 rescue interest? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

14 Nov 2001

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     Anyone have
any architectural or performance info for this machine?  
 Good info at:

 http://www.tno.nl/instit/fel/museum/computer/en/cdcsystE.html

  I assume it's a memory-to-memory vector
machine like the earlier Cybers?  
 I do not think the 180s were vector machines. They may have had some 
 vector capabilities, but they were never number crunchers. I have heard 
 some people say (may be in jest) that the 180s I/O processors were faster 
 than the main processor. 
The Cyber 960 was not in the same model line as the Cyber 205,
which was the successor (or one of the successors) to the CDC STAR,
the vector-processor line to which you refer.

Regards,
-dq