Cray-2 Overview, extracted from "Cray Channels"

[John Woods]

>My office mate gets "Cray Channels", the Cray corporation newsletter....
>This month though, in addition to all that, they have a
>four page overview of the new Cray 2.  I thought that the net might be
>interested in some of the more interesting details of the biggest "Unix box."
> The first paragraph sums it up:
> 	A pioneer in the use of liquid immersion cooling technology,
> 	the CRAY-2 features a 256-million word [8 8-bit bytes to a word]
> 	Common Memory, four independent processors and a 4.1 nanosecond
> 	clock cycle -- all in a package just 45 inches tall and 53 inches
> 	in diameter.  The CRAY-2 delivers effective CPU speed six to twelve
> 	times that of the CRAY-1 and runs an operating system based on
> 	AT&T's widely accepted UNIX(tm) System V.
> ...
> That gives the gist.  The picture is pretty neat, too.  Wouldn't that make
> a nice machine to have in my office!
> 
I have an article from Electronic Engineering Times which includes a picture
with ol' Seymour himself standing in the middle of the horseshoe:  the picture
makes it look like the Cray 2 would make a good bar in your living room!
I'll take two...

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John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101
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