2 Oct
2002
2 Oct
'02
4:08 p.m.
From: "Andy Holt"
<andyh(a)andyh-rayleigh.freeserve.co.uk>
IBM704 (mid '50s) didn't
The IBM709, which succeeded the 704 did;
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/grosch.html
The 709 succeeded the 704, adding overlapped i/o, indirect
addressing, and decimal instructions. The 7090 was a 709 with
transistor, rather than vacuum-tube, logic.
http://www-1.ibm.com/ibm/history/reference/glossary_7.html
The IBM 709 Data Processing System was introduced in January 1957.
PDP8 (?) did
The first DEC computer, the PDP-1 (designed 1959) did as well.
http://www.utc.edu/~jdumas/cs460/vonnarch.htm
mentions the 709 and no others.