[Info-vax] OT: Intel dusts off old supercomputing technology

[Arne Vajhøj]

Michael Kraemer wrote:
> The days VMS was used for raw number crunching are long gone
> (did it ever make it in the upper half of the Top 500 ?)
> and somehow I doubt that it was better suited for this
> purpose than any other OS.

I am pretty sure that they did not.

The TOP500 list was started in 1993.

And at that time VMS was out of that kind of
computing (6000's and 9000's with vector must
have been the last VMS boxes suited for
competing).

Arne