2 Jul
2009
2 Jul
'09
6:42 p.m.
Geez, out of the entire gang of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, he
sure missed a lot of the little fellows, didn't he? I know--NCR made
cash registers; GE made toasters, RCA made TVs, Honeywell made
thermostats, Not to mention Philco, Packard Bell, SDS, Tandem,
Amdahl,... or Nixdorf, ICL, English Electric, Olivetti... or NEC or
Fujitsu or any of the Soviet-era systems.
He describes the CDC6600 as "was very limited in the instructions it
could perform". Huh?? Compared to what? One little-known aspect
was that the 6600 smoked any of the IBM iron of that time when
running COBOL.
--Chuck