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Control Data Corporation (CDC) was a mainframe and supercomputer company that in the 1960s was one of the nine major U.S. computer companies, which group included IBM, the Burroughs Corporation, and the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), the NCR Corporation (NCR), General Electric, and Honeywell, RCA and UNIVAC.
William Charles Norris (July 14, 1911, near Red Cloud, Nebraska – August 21, 2006) was an American business executive. He was the CEO of Control Data Corporation, at one time one of the most powerful and respected computer companies in the world.
The AFP was the successor to the Flexible Processor (FP), whose design development started in 1972 under black-project circumstances targeted at processing radar and photo image data. [10] The FP control unit had a hardware network for conditional microinstruction execution, with four mask registers and a condition-hold register; three bits in ...
The CDC 6600 was the flagship of the 6000 series of mainframe computer systems manufactured by Control Data Corporation. [8] [9] Generally considered to be the first successful supercomputer, it outperformed the industry's prior recordholder, the IBM 7030 Stretch, by a factor of three.
Dayforce, formerly Ceridian, [3] is a descendant of Control Data Corporation (CDC). In 1992, Ceridian Corporation was founded as an information services company from the restructuring of CDC, a computer services and manufacturing company founded in 1957.
The CDC 6400, a member of the CDC 6000 series, is a mainframe computer made by Control Data Corporation in the 1960s. The central processing unit was architecturally compatible with the CDC 6600. In contrast to the 6600, which had 10 parallel functional units which could work on multiple instructions at the same time, the 6400 had a unified ...
In 1957, they founded a new company, Control Data Corporation. [9] [10] By 1960 he had completed the design of the CDC 1604, an improved low-cost ERA 1103 that had impressive performance for its price. [11] Even as the CDC 1604 was starting to ship to customers in 1960, Cray had already moved on to designing other computers.
Control Data Corporation mainframe computers (1 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Control Data Corporation hardware" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 ...