Seymour Cray - Revision history

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'''Seymour Cray''' was an American computer engineer who designed several of the most important [[supercomputer]]s of the last third of the 2oth Century, including the [[CDC 6600]] and the [[Cray-1]].

==Further reading==

* Charles J. Murray, ''The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer'', John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1997

==External links==

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051027005714/http://www.cwheroes.org/archives/histories/Cray.pdf Seymour Cray Oral History]

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 * [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1996/10/07/seymour-cray-the-man-with-gigabytes-of-genius/a8f988cc-f35c-4b22-9096-bafee4c355d4/ Seymour Cray: The Man With Gigabytes Of Genius] - interesting obituary article
 * [https://images.computerhistory.org/revonline/images/500004285-03-01.jpg?w=600 Memorandum] - Watson's famous memo on the CDC 6600
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	'''Seymour Cray''' was an American computer engineer who designed several of the most important [[supercomputer]]s of the last third of the 20th Century, including the [[CDC 6600]] and the [[Cray-1]].		'''Seymour Cray''' was an American computer engineer who designed several of the most important [[supercomputer]]s of the last third of the 20th Century, including the [[CDC 6600]] and the [[Cray-1]].
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		+	After the announcement of the 6600, Thomas Watson Jr. of [[IBM]] famously sent out a querulous memo, asking how CDC had managed to build a faster computer than IBM, with a smaller staff; to which Cray reportedly laconically replied "It seems like Mr. Watson has answered his own question."

	==Further reading==		==Further reading==

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 * [https://web.archive.org/web/20051027005714/http://www.cwheroes.org/archives/histories/Cray.pdf Seymour Cray Oral History]
 * [https://history.computer.org/pioneers/pdfs/C/Cray.pdf Seymour R. Cray] - brief biography at the IEEE Computer Society
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	* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051027005714/http://www.cwheroes.org/archives/histories/Cray.pdf Seymour Cray Oral History]		* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051027005714/http://www.cwheroes.org/archives/histories/Cray.pdf Seymour Cray Oral History]
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	==Further reading==		==Further reading==