Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:59:27 09/14/99
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On September 14, 1999 at 17:04:32, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >On September 14, 1999 at 07:53:52, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On September 13, 1999 at 22:28:24, Martin Grabriel wrote: >> >>>with all its tablebases play better than Cray in the 1980s? >> >> >>No. Unless you mean using 1980's hardware. Cray Blitz, on current Cray >>hardware, is pretty formidable... it can hit almost 10M nodes per second... >>uses singular extensions, etc. If you mean 1980's era Cray Blitz on modern >>hardware, that is still very strong. If you mean 1980's era CB software on >>1980's era hardware, it is still at _least_ as fast as the very fastest >>programs of today, but such games would indeed be 'interesting'... > >Is the 1983 Cray hardware still available? Or is it completely discontinued? I believe they are all gone. I ran (and won the world championship in 1983) on the Cray XMP serial 101. When this machine was decommissioned several years ago and taken apart for salvage, a friend up at Cray sent me a module from this box to frame. Cray had serial numbers on every circuit board in these machines and also the serial number of the computer they were part of. Nice to have a hunk of that box, but it probably means that none are running anywhere that I know of...
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