Comment by tvarghese7
8 hours ago
Worked on the CM-1 and CM2. I felt they were awful buggy. At one point they asked if they could use my code to run as a diagnostic, it would break the log() function on occasion.
The Cray fluorinert fountains were way cooler :)
Around the same time (1984), there was also another very cool piece of technology that often gets overlooked: the CMU WARP. It wasn’t as flashy as the Crays and the Connection Machine, but it was the first systolic array accelerator (what we’d now call TPUs). It packed as much MFLOPS as a Cray 1.
It's also the computer that powered the Chevrolet Navlab self-driving car in 1986.
This is so cool to read, thank you for sharing!