[geeks] New Cray?

[Dan Sikorski]

nate at portents.com wrote:
>> Actually, i think Apple did more to dilute it in their advertising
>> campaign than the US Government did.
>>     
>
> Apple referenced the government definition with an asterisk and a footnote
> in both the print and TV ad, as I recall.
>
> I take it you'd have preferred people had retained their 'undiluted'
> supercomputer mental association with the blinky lights on the Thinking
> Machines CM-5 front panels in Jurassic Park instead?
>   

Of course!  It's a UNIX system!  I know it!

I always think of the Control Data machines in Die Hard when i think of 
computers in movies.  Movies always leave out the minor detail of 
deafening roar from fans though. (or was the power cut in that scene?)

    -Dan Sikorski