7 Apr
2004
7 Apr
'04
6 p.m.
That reminds me of a interesting quote from Thomas
Watson:
Last week Control Data ... announced the 6600 system. I understand
that in the laboratory developing the system there are only 34
people including the janitor. Of these, 14 are engineers and 4 are
programmers ... Contrasting this modest effort with our vast
development activities, I fail to understand why we have lost our
industry leadership position by letting someone else offer the
world's most powerful computer.
Russets and Citrus fruits
The 6600 was a single design intended to do one thing excellently (run
Fortran programs)
One model, one assembler, one Fortran compiler, and a minimal operating
system.
(OK, later came the variants. The other operating systems and compilers came
from the customers)
The S/360 ... well you can fill the rest in yourself (but I'll mention that
there were at least two compilers each for at least 4 programming languages)
Andy