[Varmint Al]

I worked at LLNL and was one of the many users of LLNL's Cray One. In those days it was the dream machine. I think it was running at 25 mflops. That was when we had hard drives that were about the size of a Volkswagen with huge spinning platters about 4 ft in diameter. We were developing the nuclear weapons that finally won the cold war without firing a shot. As a side note, my current desktop computer is about 20 times faster than the Cray one.

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al

[Bobalu]

I read somewhere that the Cray 1 ran at 170Mips

I have 25 cent 32 bit micro-controllers that can do better than that.

The 100mhz ARM that controls an ordinary SD card is more powerful.

We live in amazing times :-)

[Bobalu]

I just looked at your Freeper page, and then at your engineering page... impressive my FRiend.

I love meeting someone smarter than myself... I think we would enjoy each others company :-)

[grey_whiskers]

The advantage of the Cray 1 was not the vector registers, tho' they were cool; it was that fact that even in scalar mode, the machine was 10x as fast as anything else out there. :-)