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

[Alan Rubin]

what would we need it for?  you still have ~$150?  or what?

 i mean if barry is there we will have to pay him some money for the
shrimp tails, but we can get more money tomorrow or whenever.

alan

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, William Barnett-Lewis wrote:

> 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.
> >
> -- 
> You better watch out    What you wish for;
> It better be worth it   So much to die for.
>                                 Courtney Love
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