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Re: Apple Computer 30th Birthday

Andrew Hastings (abh@nospam.acm.org)
Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:30:58 -0500

hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

> Where are DEC (Digital/PDP) and CDC (Control Data Corporation)? What
> about Cray?

DEC was bought by Compaq and merged into HP.

CDC split into two companies, Ceridian (services) and Control Data
Systems (hardware). Ceridian lives on. CDS evolved into a systems
integration business and was purchased by the British firm Syntegra
which in turn was acquired by British Telecom.

(Extra credit: We've heard about Burroughs, Univac, and CDC. What
happened to the remaining two companies of the BUNCH: NCR and
Honeywell?)

Cray Research was purchased by SGI, shrunk, and then sold to Tera
Computer. Tera took on the Cray name and lives on as Cray Inc. Cray
still has a respectable showing on the Top 500 list of supercomputers
http://www.top500.org .

A recent article reverses this and (incorrectly) claims Cray bought Tera:
http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=181502574

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