Seymour Cray

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Seymour Cray was an American computer engineer who designed several of the most important supercomputers of the last third of the 20th Century, including the CDC 6600 and the Cray-1.

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

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

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