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- From: fineberg@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Samuel A. Fineberg)
- Subject: Re: ILIAC and old parallel machines
- References: <926@felix.Sublink.Org> <mcdonald.603@aries.scs.uiuc.edu> <mcdonald.604@aries.scs.uiuc.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 23:15:00 GMT
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- In article <mcdonald.604@aries.scs.uiuc.edu>, mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald) writes:
- |> In article <mcdonald.603@aries.scs.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald) writes:
- |>
- |>
- |> >Do you mean the Illiac IV? Presumably, yes.
- |>
- |> >It was an odd multiprocessor beastie.
- |>
- |> Sorry folks, for all those horrible typos. I was stupid to do it while
- |> needing to run to a meeting.
- |>
- |> It was a wonderfully quaint machine and I loved it a lot. Quaint,
- |> and baroque.
- |>
- |> Doug McDonald
- They have some peices of it on display at the CCF here. The funny part is that
- I heard they had to break it apart with sledge hammers to get it out of the
- door when they were dismantleing it.
-
- Sam
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