Fw: Control Data Cyber 960 rescue interest?

From: William Donzelli <aw288_at_osfn.org>
Date: Wed Nov 14 12:49:48 2001

> 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.

William Donzelli
aw288_at_osfn.org
Received on Wed Nov 14 2001 - 12:49:48 GMT

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