Errr, no the Cray-1 did not ran UNICOS (unix version from CRAY), it ran COS. Which was not really much of an OS for interactive use. UNICOS came much later, and at least in the early CRAYs it was pretty much useless. Most CRAYs (and supers for that matter) during the 70s and 80s were ran as a queue system, a sort of co-processor to the front end machine which would handle most of the user interactions. Normally in the case of CRAYs there used to be mini or mainframe (VAX, CDC, etc).

CRAYs were basically a fast floating point coprocessor, never intended for interactive use. In fact they were notoriously bad as time-shared systems. What I posted offends you?

Or is it I’m not “politically correct” enough in parsing my words for your taste/perceptions? Have you anything to say about the Cray? Or you just here to check “hall passes? Did you follow the links? Did you read the article? Do you have an opinion besides what you perceive as PC? It seems my quite innocent post has been perceived as a possible violation of some unwritten rule of brevity – that my true intent to influence some of you people to the mental torture that is my post, flailing you subliminally to my will and domination of this forum.

Posting links to something relevant? Consider your relevancy, actually consider your past posts.

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Yeah, I like Macintoshes – sue me, I’m not running for office, nor do I need your approval. What I posted offends you? Or is it I’m not “politically correct” enough in parsing my words for your taste/perceptions? Have you anything to say about the Cray? Or you just here to check “hall passes? Did you follow the links? Did you read the article?

Do you have an opinion besides what you perceive as PC? It seems my quite innocent post has been perceived as a possible violation of some unwritten rule of brevity – that my true intent to influence some of you people to the mental torture that is my post, flailing you subliminally to my will and domination of this forum.

Slow on the uptake? Posting links to something irrelevant? Consider your relevancy, actually consider your past posts. Yeah, I like Macintoshes – sue me, I’m not running for office, nor do I need your approval. The atom bomb was designed using mechanical calculators. Yes, they were Monroe hand driven mechanical calculators.

At Los Alamos they had a very large room filled with locally hired woman operating them. Designing how the calculations were split up amongst the many operators (parallel computing?) was Nobel prizewinner to be and bongo drummer Dick Feynman. His title was “Director of Computers”. This isn’t the only contribution Feynman made to computer science. Many years later when his son was working for Connection Machines he took a years sabbatical to work there. While he was there he worked out the foundational principles of quantum computing. He also solved problems in parallel processing using differential equations.

No one had ever thought you could solve computer science problems using differential equations before, as they apply to continuous variables. However a continuum can be used to represent an underlying discrete substratum. If we take the idea of quantum gravity seriously, then every time we use differential equations to model physical reality we are doing just that. ”Yes, they were Monroe hand driven mechanical calculators.

At Los Alamos they had a very large room filled with locally hired woman operating them. [] [Dick Feynman’s] title was “Director of Computers”.” No, not operators – computers. In these days, people doing such kind of calculations were called “computer” (AE) or “computor” (BE) theirselves. “I work as a computer” has been a valid sentence. Today, we use the same term for the device that is operated, not the person who’s doing it. The term operator was present up to hmm let’s assume 1990 – 2000 when supercomputers and mainframe installations didn’t need special personnel to be maintained. The operator of today does not touch the machines anymore, he can be glad to change the paper in the printer – no comparison to the responsibilities of a former OP1 (shift supervisor) at data processing centers.