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by CalChris 1095 days ago
Cray gets mentioned in the Reader 3 times, the simplicity quote, the pioneer quote and the timeline comparison with the Iliac-4 (p. 80). Waterman's thesis does actually give some credit:

  The CDC 6600 [95] and Cray-1 [82] ISAs, in many respects the precursors to RISC, each had two lengths of instruction, albeit without the redundancy property of the Stretch.
https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2016/EECS-2016-...