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CDC 6600 Supercomputer

1964: Control Data Corporation CDC 6600, the First Supercomputer

Control Data Corp. introduced the CDC 6600 in 1964 at which time it was three times faster than the IBM Stretch, which had been the speed champ for a couple years. The CDC 6600 achieved its speed by using ten peripheral processors pipelining data to a central processor that could process three million instructions per second.

 

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