17 Nov
2011
17 Nov
'11
8:52 a.m.
On 11/16/11 9:43 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I also recall that the Philco System 2000 was one of
the few
commercial versions utilizing that idea. "Asynchronous" was part of
their advertising campaign--and, for a very short time, they had one
of the fastest transistorized machines.
I have been told that the 2000 was also unreliable because of this. I've
never looked at the detailed design, though. Until the release of the
CDC 6600, the follow-on Philco 212 was one of the fastest machines in the
world. It would be interesting to find detailed hw docs on the 212. CHM
has a CPU, but no detailed drawings of it.