25 Aug
2011
25 Aug
'11
12:19 p.m.
Brent Hilpert wrote:
Gee, they went looking for a 7094 but only found a 7090, how dejecting
is that.
Seriously though, I do understand if the museum has a particular
mandate or focus.
The quest for a 7094 comes from the fact that it was the first machine
that IBM sold that could support a true timesharing computing
environment. Mr. Allen's focus is on historical timeshare computing
environments, because that's where he and Gates cut their teeth learning
about programming and operating systems.
While the 7090 was cool, it didn't have the hardware capabilities needed
to do timesharing. I sure hope *someone* rescue[ds] that 7090.