[geeks] Microsoft Surface...

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 03:52:15PM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> Didn't Sun acquire some technology from Cray, around the time they started 
> selling "mainframe class" systems?

The E10K was designed by Cray (as the followup to the SuperServer 6400
series).  When SGI bought Cray, they didn't want to sell a system based
around their competitor's processor, so Sun bought the design.

Bill

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