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   Thomas Koenig to Anton Ertl   
   Re: Linus Torvalds on bad architectural    
   29 Dec 25 08:17:18   
   
   From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
   Anton Ertl  schrieb:   
      
   > Mitch Alsup mentioned one architecture without order problems: The   
   > Cray-1 is word-addressed and does not support numbers that take more   
   > than one word.  The same is true of the CDC 6600 and descendents.   
      
   The Cray-1 had double precision numbers, with software support   
   only.  They had to in order to conform to the FORTRAN standards   
   of storage association.   
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