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The Rise and Fall of the Cray Supercomputer (www.youtube.com)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Who else first saw/read about these in Jurassic Park?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I believe I first heard of these in an Alex Rider book. Forget which one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

~~Hmmm... Hackers maybe?~~

No, those were Gisbon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

maybe, but also I visited one at the computing museum in Georgia. More pcs should have a communal bench attached

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I first worked on one in a summer thing between high school and college - before Jurassic Park. That experience is what originally got me interested in the Internet.