Scientific Computer Systems (SCS) delivers the first production model of its SCS-40 minisupercomputer

SDSC and SCS used the Cray X-MP-48 at SDSC to develop the SCS’s CTSS operating system, utilities and libraries. The new machine, called SCS-40/14 was a single-CPU machine with four megawords of memory. Like the Cray, it had 64-bit word size. With a clock period of 45 nanoseconds, the machine had a peak computational rate of 44 megaflops.