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some have been big, some have been small. what makes a supercomputer super is not size, but performance compared to other computers of its time.

In fact some of the highest performance supercomputers have been among the smallest sized computers ever built. Seymour Cray's last supercomputer before he died was only the size of a two drawer file cabinet. Smaller than any he had built before (and no microprocessors involved, it was still a third generation computer).

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