Cray Manual (was Re: [rescue] wild far-out theory.)

[William Barnett-Lewis]

I'd do many things unmentionable on a public list for a copy of that and
I don't even think of Cray as being that big a deal. (OTOH, I'd
f*&^%^&&^$^$%$ing kill for a copy of the docs that would let me write a
NetBSD XServer for my Vaxstation 4000's low end graphics card...)

William


> From: Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez <lefa at cats.ucsc.edu>
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [rescue] wild far-out theory.
> Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> 
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:
> 
> > On February 7, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > > Anybody know if the instruction set, etc, is publicly documented?
> >
> >   FYI I have detailed architectural information for the XMP
> > family...maybe enough to write an emulator..
> >
> >     -Dave
> 
> My advisor has a full CRAY1 manual, the interesting thing about it is the
> fact that it was donated to him by some high up at IBM. They went to a
> conference by Mr. Cray at Stanford (undercover I guess), so they got full
> acces to the cray-1 architecture manual. Attached to it is an internal IBM
> memo that had a report on the system and whether or not they considered it
> a threat to IBM. In short IBM was not very impressed, and they did not
> considered it much of a threat.....
> 
> As my advisor says, they were right... because IBM is still in bidness and
> CRAY is no more...
> 
> I can try to xerox tha manual, it is pretty thick! if anyone is
> interested.
>
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