Editing TI Advanced Scientific Computer (section)

{{Short description|Supercomputer}}
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The '''Advanced Scientific Computer''' ('''ASC''') is a [[supercomputer]] designed and manufactured by [[Texas Instruments]] (TI) between 1966 and 1973.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oDpWAAAAMAAJ&q=%22first+two+ASCs%22|title=Electronics|date=1973|publisher=McGraw-Hill Publishing Company|pages=36|language=en}}</ref> The ASC's [[central processing unit]] (CPU) supported [[Vector processor|vector processing]], a performance-enhancing technique which was key to its high-performance. The ASC, along with the [[Control Data Corporation]] [[CDC STAR-100|STAR-100]] supercomputer (which was introduced in the same year), were the first computers to feature vector processing. However, this technique's potential was not fully realized by either the ASC or STAR-100 due to an insufficient understanding of the technique; it was the [[Cray Research]] [[Cray-1]] supercomputer, announced in 1975 that would fully realize and popularize vector processing. The more successful implementation of vector processing in the Cray-1 would demarcate the ASC (and STAR-100) as first-generation vector processors, with the Cray-1 belonging in the second.