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Rick Altherr
On The Metal
Nostalgia for Cray Supercomputers and Alpha Processors
The chapter delves into the admiration and nostalgia for historic cylindrical Cray supercomputers, discussing their design intricacy and impracticality in modern times. It also reminisces about owning and running an Alpha station with the True64 operating system, highlighting the challenges and complexities of running Windows NT on Alpha processors.
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