A computer built to deliver the highest available computational performance of its era, typically for scientific or government use, at a cost and scale well beyond an ordinary commercial machine. Belongs here: CDC 6600 and Cray-1. Does not belong here: a machine notable for its architecture family or market reach rather than raw performance leadership, filed under Mainframe Family.
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1. Wikipedia: CDC 6600
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With performance of up to three megaFLOPS, the CDC 6600 was the world's fastest computer from 1964 to 1969, when it relinquished that status to its successor, the CDC 7600.
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