I think I saw this last summer but forgot it. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is buying or has bought Cray Computer.
Back in the summer of 1994 at a two-week seminar at Columbia Business School, we did a case on Cray vs IBM. While IBM sold unbelievable service, Cray sold unbelievable computers, with the oil and gas industry as a primary market. Cray computers were delivered without so much as an operating system because the folks who bought them preferred to write their own.?ÿ
I wonder what HPE will do with Cray. I hope that what's left of Seymour Cray's legacy can be preserved.
the folks who bought them preferred to write their own.?ÿ
I imagine the operating systems were pretty basic, having not much more capability than file read/write and perhaps a command to run a compiler before running the application program.?ÿ The Cray's job was to COMPUTE, not fuss around with the stuff you do on iOS or Windows.
