* [COFF] [TUHS] A/UX [was Linux is on-topic]
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@ 2020-08-15 15:18 ` dot
2020-08-15 17:09 ` krewat
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From: dot @ 2020-08-15 15:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
moving to COFF ...
Thomas Paulsen <thomas.paulsen at firemail.de> wrote:
> >I'm sure everyone here knows this, but the Cray 1 (I think, the one
> that had what looked like a circular bench seat around the bottom) was
> designed like that because the clock was at the center and the clock
> signal went to all the boards and was right because all the clock lines
> to the boards were the same length.<
>
> you mean that? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Cray-1-deutsches-museum.jpg
I found the Cray 1M site planning reference manual very interesting -
here's a summary with links to the actual documents
http://www.howtospotapsychopath.com/2012/06/15/they-called-it-big-iron-for-a-reason/
Tony.
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* [COFF] [TUHS] A/UX [was Linux is on-topic]
2020-08-15 15:18 ` [COFF] [TUHS] A/UX [was Linux is on-topic] dot
@ 2020-08-15 17:09 ` krewat
2020-08-15 18:01 ` steffen
2020-08-18 23:15 ` dot
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From: krewat @ 2020-08-15 17:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
After going down that rabbit hole (thanks!)...
I love the motor/generator pair(s) they used to power the thing. I
immediately thought of a motor-generator set my father had, to turn 60hz
into 400hz, so he could test products they built at a defense contractor
(and later, NASA contractor).
Sure enough, the Cray used 400hz AC input power.
On 8/15/2020 11:18 AM, Tony Finch wrote:
> moving to COFF ...
>
> Thomas Paulsen <thomas.paulsen at firemail.de> wrote:
>
>>> I'm sure everyone here knows this, but the Cray 1 (I think, the one
>> that had what looked like a circular bench seat around the bottom) was
>> designed like that because the clock was at the center and the clock
>> signal went to all the boards and was right because all the clock lines
>> to the boards were the same length.<
>>
>> you mean that? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Cray-1-deutsches-museum.jpg
> I found the Cray 1M site planning reference manual very interesting -
> here's a summary with links to the actual documents
>
> http://www.howtospotapsychopath.com/2012/06/15/they-called-it-big-iron-for-a-reason/
>
> Tony.
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* [COFF] [TUHS] A/UX [was Linux is on-topic]
2020-08-15 17:09 ` krewat
@ 2020-08-15 18:01 ` steffen
2020-08-15 18:04 ` steffen
2020-08-18 23:15 ` dot
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From: steffen @ 2020-08-15 18:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
Arthur Krewat wrote in
<2e6b32cb-3e8a-a185-854d-e47204240c60 at kilonet.net>:
|After going down that rabbit hole (thanks!)...
Yeah dammit, i haven't read Iggy's rider for a decade or so!!
Man, the good ones die out and what remains is like that hot
yellow water, so to say. Doh!
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
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* [COFF] [TUHS] A/UX [was Linux is on-topic]
2020-08-15 18:01 ` steffen
@ 2020-08-15 18:04 ` steffen
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From: steffen @ 2020-08-15 18:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in
<20200815180135.-TJSo%steffen at sdaoden.eu>:
|Arthur Krewat wrote in
| <2e6b32cb-3e8a-a185-854d-e47204240c60 at kilonet.net>:
||After going down that rabbit hole (thanks!)...
|
|Yeah dammit, i haven't read Iggy's rider for a decade or so!!
The old, real one, that is to say!
|Man, the good ones die out and what remains is like that hot
|yellow water, so to say. Doh!
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
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* [COFF] [TUHS] A/UX [was Linux is on-topic]
2020-08-15 17:09 ` krewat
2020-08-15 18:01 ` steffen
@ 2020-08-18 23:15 ` dot
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From: dot @ 2020-08-18 23:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
Arthur Krewat <krewat at kilonet.net> wrote:
> After going down that rabbit hole (thanks!)...
Share and enjoy :-)
[ If you like geeky links there's much more like it at https://dotat.at/:/ ]
Tony.
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southerly or southeasterly 4 to 6. Smooth or slight, becoming slight or
moderate later. Fair then rain at times. Good, occasionally poor later.
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