Article 81 of comp.sys.cdc: Path: matra.meer.net!news1.best.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!avenir!walker From: walker@avenir.cerl.uiuc.edu (Michael W. Walker) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.sys.cdc Subject: Re: Reminiscing About the Cyber 6600 Date: 8 May 1997 14:10:30 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 27 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5ksmsm$5hl@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <01bc567d$25cfb000$7a59e1cc@default> <336DD429.74BA@rsn.hp.com> <336ECBB9.2962@imi.mb.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: avenir.cso.uiuc.edu Xref: matra.meer.net comp.lang.fortran:50321 comp.sys.cdc:81 In article , Paul C. Smith wrote: >In article <336ECBB9.2962@imi.mb.ca>, Charles Goodman >wrote: > >)What's all this reminiscing? We are still running our Cyber180! >) >)Charlie Goodman >)Cybershare Ltd. >)Winnipeg Canada > >And there's still a few of us that are still *supporting* Cybers as well... > >Paul C. Smith >NOS Support >Control Data Systems, Inc. Which is pretty amazing given that translation/emulation techniques are to the point that a modern 64 bit processor like the Dec Alpha can run COMPASS code orders of magnitude faster than any Cyber ever built. Too bad CDC hasn't supported its legacy customers in saving their software investment while getting off the old iron. There would be a lot more "quasi-Cyber" sites left if they had... -- Michael W. Walker mwwalker@uiuc.edu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign