5 Oct
1998
5 Oct
'98
4:30 p.m.
At 12:10 AM 06-10-98 -0400, William Donzelli wrote:
The Atlas is famous for two important things - virtual memory and
timesharing. The Atlas was the first commercial machine to have hardware
support for paging and hence virtual memory. A neat timesharing system
resulted. I also seem to recall a nice Algol compiler for it too. I'll see
if I can remember to check my copy of "Algol-60 Compilation and Assessment"
which will have the gory details :-)
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Well I'd
add a Ferranti Atlas for all the obvious reasons.
I probably should have added some foriegn iron, but I must admit, I am
unfamiliar with it. Certainly some of the big Japanese and British stuff
would count.