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by jgelsey 2948 days ago
Disappointing it does not mention Convex Computer, which:

-produced the world's first commercially available gallium arsenide supercomputer, the Convex C3

-owned the minisupercomputer market from ~1986 through its end in 1995

-built the first commercially successful flat address space, cache coherent massively parallel processor the SPP1000 series in '94

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I agree wholeheartedly :-) Incidentally, I have 9 Convexes at home: https://vaxbarn.com/index.php/43-project/641-the-convex-comp...
-shipped an auto-vectorizing C compiler instead of emphasizing just Fortran

-hired Tom Christiansen and shipped with Perl pre-installed

-employed Robert Morris (a co-founder of Y Combinator) as a summer intern