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Microsystems and Cray Research have each been bought out by other firms at least once each. Does it really do a service to Knowledge readers to make an overriding distinction based on whose historical logos were painted onto those cabinets full of Sun hardware? or based on
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Yes, it does make a difference. This article is about systems manufactured and marketed by Sun
Microsystems under the SPARCstation/SPARCserver/SPARCcenter brand. The Cray CS6400 was manufactured and marketed by Cray BSD prior to their acquisition by SGI, and was never sold b Syun, and was never
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Wow, my tongue-in-cheek reference to "purists" seems to have been taken surprisingly seriously. Let me put this another way: The
Superserver 6400 was documented in the Sun Field Engineer Handbook (as were other SPARC servers), was built from Sun components (as were other SPARC servers), and
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I've added a paragraph after the server table to explain that the CS6400 was sold as a Cray product rather than a Sun product. Included is a reference to a paper by one of the Cray
Business Systems folks which traces the agreement between Cray and Sun back to 1991; I think that agreement is
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Research product. The fact that the subject of this article is now historical is no reason to cloud the issue - historical subjects require accuracy and clarity even more than contemporary ones, IMHO. Regards,
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There's an explicit limitation that this article is about the SPARCstation/SPARCserver product line manufactured by Sun Microsystems. The Cray CS6400 was not a Sun Microsystems product.--
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