CRAY-1
| CRAY-1-tan | |
| File:CRAY1.png | |
| Character Information | |
|---|---|
| Common Names | CRAY-1-tan |
| Other Names | n/a |
| Appearance | |
| Design | |
| Creator | Aurora Borealis |
| First Appearance | Nov 2009 |
| Technical Information | |
| System Personified | CRAY-1 (hardware), Cray Operating System (OS) |
| Developer(s) | Cray Research |
| Debut | 1976 |
| Latest release | ? |
Technical Details
The Cray-1 is one of the most successful supercomputers, and regarded as the first true supercomputer in history, released in 1976 with a clock speed of 80 MHz. Each one sold for $5-8 million, and over 80 were sold, successful for such an expensive computer. For years, it was the world's fastest computer. It was designed with optimal speed and efficiency in mind, was designed to deliberately crash a few times a day, and is easily recognizable by its distinctive appearance- tall, cylindrical, built-in seats on its edges, and the large, customizable color panels on the outside.
Another claim to fame is that the Cray-1 was used in the 1982 sci-fi movie "TRON", which was the first movie to be made with computer graphics, and also had a cameo appearance in the movie.
Its original OS was the Cray Operating System (COS), replaced by the UNIX variant UNICOS in 1985. Cray-1-tan also represents COS, and hates UNIX, referring to COS being abandoned in favor of UNICOS.
Character Details
Cray-1-tan is represented as an extremely tall woman [@213 cm, 7 ft.] with an up-do decorated with a metallic headdress, earrings that change color, a futuristic-style gown decorated with frills and large, color-changing crystal panels modeled after those on the Cray-1 machine and its customizable appearance. She is an artist and sci-fi fan, who is very wise and down-to-earth for a (former?) OS-tan of the Mainframe Guild.
