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Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963)

45 points · 23 comments · mooreds

  1. rbanffy · · focus · HN ↗
    Interesting to note the question had the answer all along. How would a modest effort outrun a vast organisation?

    I never imagined he’d be caught by that mistake.

    1. gshubert17 · · focus · HN ↗
      Cray's reply was sardonic: "It seems like Mr. Watson has answered his own question."

      <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;CDC_6600" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;CDC_6600

      1. rbanffy · · focus · HN ↗
        Cray must have been a very funny person.
        1. jhbadger · · focus · HN ↗
          Cray had a funny quote on the virtues of fast CPUs over parallelism &quot;If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?&quot;. Of course history has shown that the &quot;chickens&quot; was the strategy the field went with.
          1. krige · · focus · HN ↗
            Yeah, but only once they managed to breed chickens as strong as an ox.
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