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Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 09:03:54 -0800
Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: jahlstro@CISCO.COM
Subject: Re: IBM "Stretch" 7030 and Atlas
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
Jon Agar wrote:
>ironically, the lack of government orders for the Atlas was a crucial factor behind the commercial failure of this project - when built it was claimed to be as fast as any computer in the world - and ended the line of British top of the range computers.
Any one have any real performance comparisons between Atlas and Stretch?
Certainly the government orders for Stretch did not seem to make it a commercial success.
What about the Atlas successor--Titan?
Performance? government orders? commercial success?
John Ahlstrom
jahlstrom@cisco.com
Amateurs discuss instruction set architecture. Professionals discuss cooling.
With apologies to Genl Omar N Bradley
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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: jahlstro@CISCO.COM
Subject: Re: IBM "Stretch" 7030 and Atlas
______________________________________________________________________
Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
Jon Agar wrote:
>ironically, the lack of government orders for the Atlas was a crucial factor behind the commercial failure of this project - when built it was claimed to be as fast as any computer in the world - and ended the line of British top of the range computers.
Any one have any real performance comparisons between Atlas and Stretch?
Certainly the government orders for Stretch did not seem to make it a commercial success.
What about the Atlas successor--Titan?
Performance? government orders? commercial success?
John Ahlstrom
jahlstrom@cisco.com
Amateurs discuss instruction set architecture. Professionals discuss cooling.
With apologies to Genl Omar N Bradley
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