23 Sep
2022
23 Sep
'22
5:35 p.m.
On 9/23/22 09:53, Paul Koning wrote:
Those are good examples, but is it "many" or
just those two and maybe one or two more? For example, Burroughs and IBM mainframes were
both very much "lights and switches" control panel type machines. For that
matter, so were the other CDC products; the 6000 series was a bit of an outlier I think.
How many supercomputers were there in the 1960s? I suppose you could
count the 360/195 as a ridiculous example of the opposite approach, but
eventually, even IBM saw the light.
--Chuck