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Thread ID: 150917	2022-10-02 02:46:00	New super computer	kenj (9738)	PC World Chat

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1488682	2022-10-02 02:46:00	Compare this with the Cray-1 :) www.designnews.com Ken	kenj (9738)
1488683	2022-10-02 08:41:00	Amazing.	zqwerty (97)
1488684	2022-10-02 17:38:00	I will have to get one to run my flight sim program. Don't tell my wife:)	CliveM (6007)
1488685	2022-10-02 19:43:00	I used to look at photos of the Cray computers and marvel at them! He designed them in a round form so all the internal wiring was the same length, reasoning being that everything had to travel the same distance? Or something like that. Ken	kenj (9738)
1488686	2022-10-02 20:18:00	Proposed Supercomputer Will Be Six Billion Times Faster Than a Cray-1 says the Headline five to ten times faster than today’s speediest supercomputers. says the text. Yeah, not so eye catching then	piroska (17583)
1488687	2022-10-02 21:39:00	Just a little bit different from the first programmable computer built at Bletchley Park (near London) in the second world war. It was called Colossus. It took up ten rooms and was used to decode the German signals. it has been said that it would have been quicker for the German generals to call Bletchley Park than wait for their orders for the day to arrive. It helped decode the signals encoded by the enigma machine that the Germans thought - throughout the war - was very secure and they had no idea that the British had cracked it. It was one of the best kept secret of the war and all the workers were sworn to secrecy and were not permitted to even talk to their spouses or families about the work they did. The official secrets act meant that they were not permitted to talk about it until 30 years after the war which ended in September 1945. Many went to their graves without telling anyone what they did in the war. The Yanks will tell you that they built the first programmable computer, the ENIAC, but that was in December 1945, well after the war had ended. There have been a few books written about the code breaking. One book is "Secrets at Bletchley Park," and well worth a read. There are a few other books as well.	Roscoe (6288)
1488688	2022-10-02 23:47:00	Just a little bit different from the first programmable computer built at Bletchley Park (near London) in the second world war. It was called Colossus. It took up ten rooms and was used to decode the German signals. it has been said that it would have been quicker for the German generals to call Bletchley Park than wait for their orders for the day to arrive. It helped decode the signals encoded by the enigma machine that the Germans thought - throughout the war - was very secure and they had no idea that the British had cracked it. It was one of the best kept secret of the war and all the workers were sworn to secrecy and were not permitted to even talk to their spouses or families about the work they did. The official secrets act meant that they were not permitted to talk about it until 30 years after the war which ended in September 1945. Many went to their graves without telling anyone what they did in the war. The Yanks will tell you that they built the first programmable computer, the ENIAC, but that was in December 1945, well after the war had ended. There have been a few books written about the code breaking. One book is "Secrets at Bletchley Park," and well worth a read. There are a few other books as well. Pom propaganda. More errors (deliberate or otherwise) than a political pre-election speech.	R2x1 (4628)
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