ggm 11 hours ago

There you go. Not to doubt what you say, but we definitely had the love seat yet we also had a tank of vaguely flourescing green liquid. Maybe we had some intermediate state, the cray-1 cpu form but the cray-2 upgraded coolant.

It wouldn't surprise me if we had the bastard love-child of leftovers from Boeing.

  • maybewhenthesun 5 hours ago

    You consistency in spelling fluor as flour gave me visions of using pancake batter as a coolant :-D

xattt 3 hours ago

The GP also mentions X11 Terminals. My wiki-fu shows the X Windowing System came about on or around 1983, while Cray-1 was 1970s vintage. I assume that was an upgrade at some later point.

  • egberts1 2 hours ago

    X Window Release 3 (X11R3) was introduced on Cray into UNICOS (a UNIX variant of Cray OS, COS) in late 1989 using ported 64-bit Xlib. But it was not widely used within small Cray community.

    But MIT cooked up X11 "PROTOCOL" of Xlib in late 1985 to 1986 on Univac and Unix in C with many other X libraries written in Common Lisp.

    X10R3 mostly stabilized the Xlib around a few platforms and CPU architecture (DDX) in a"long" preparation for X11R1 in September 1987.

    https://www.x.org/wiki/X11R1/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

  • bluGill 2 hours ago

    Since this was a 2nd hand machine having the upgrades for X11 doesn't seem unlikely.