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Article: 14316 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
From: "Douglas H. Quebbeman" <dougq@iglou.com>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.protocols.kermit.misc
References: <bagsiu$6d7$1@watsol.cc.columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: Columbia U Computing History - New stuff
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 08:27:58 -0400
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Frank da Cruz wrote:
[..snip..]
> http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/norc.html
> NORC, the first supercomputer, and the fastest computer on earth
> for about ten years (1954-63).
IIRC, the term had not been coined and in usage prior to its
application to the CDC 6600, generally ackowledged as the
first supercomputer...
Granted, it may well have been faster in relation to the
other hardware of the day to deserve the moniker, but it
still seems somewhat revisionist to apply the term to a
machine that early...
-dq
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-Douglas Hurst Quebbeman (dougq@iglou.com) [Call me "Doug"]
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