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The Steve Jobs of supercomputers: We remember Seymour Cray

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Re: CYBER 74

COMPASS == Complete pain in the ass

One nice thing about the 6000/7000 series instruction set was that it was really easy looking through an octal dump compared to what's involved with an x86 hex dump. Also had fond memories of the use of A1 to A5 for reading memory into the associated X register and A6 and A7 for writing to memory.

Text processing on the other hand was a royal pain.

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