Re: Book Recommendation: "Supermen" (about Cray, Norris, CDC, etc.)

[nolegz@juno.com (Lloyd E Briggs)]

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On Thu, 03 Apr 97 19:24:05 EST dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
writes:
>"Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net> writes:
>> Next came the vaunted 6600, after almost not being funded to 
>completion. It
>> waws the first true supercomputer. Cray had moved his team up to 
>Chippewa
>  ^^^^???
>
>I used to play with a 6600. It had some interesting hardware features:
>* It used one's complement rather than two's complement to represent 
>negative
>integers. (I.e. -x is the same as not x; a pattern of all 1's is 
>'-0'.)
>* It had 60-bit words for both integers and single-precision reals.
>A 120-bit double precision was pretty slow. A word could fit 10 6-bit
>characters, but any kind of text processing was a bitch.
>* 15-bit addresses referred to the whole word. A word could contain
>several instructions, but only an instruction on a word boundary
>could be a target of a branch.
>
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>
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