bit addressing, alignment, bus errors, and VM (was Re: PDP-10 arch question)

From: William Donzelli <william_at_ans.net>
Date: Mon Nov 2 08:38:58 1998

> 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_at_ans.net
Received on Mon Nov 02 1998 - 08:38:58 GMT

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