25 Oct
2010
25 Oct
'10
7:41 a.m.
--- On Mon, 10/25/10, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
32 bit machine
Those mainframes weren't 32 bit though. They were *much more* than 32 bit. What was
it, two 64 bit registers or something like that? I don't remember, but I'm pretty
sure it's not just a straight 32 bit machine :D
Now, I AM sure that IBM had a mainframe that could do a million instructions per second
before the VAX came out. DEC might have been the first one to turn it into a statistic
with a cute name though. The VAX *may* have been the first 1 MIPS _MINI_ computer. I know
that Prime didn't have one until like '79 or '80.
-Ian
> That is a
shit article.
>
> Two of the three "number of things that make the
VAX 11/780 very
important" are not correct.
And glaringly so. To say that the 11/780 is the first is just silly. Prime had a 32 bit machine in
1972. And
I know that
there were others - but the Prime is the machine
that
I know the best
:)
Yeah, good heavens, how about all the IBM 360/370
mainframes?!