29 May
2009
29 May
'09
3:10 p.m.
I'm calling the D825 as being earlier as it was a
vacuum-tube box,
while the B5500 was solid-state. ?In any case, the design was
probably much earlier than the B5500.
Maybe - hard to say, being a government-to-civilian
(apples-to-oranges) comparison.
That could imply that although SAGE used them as
backup, ?they
weren't necessarily limited in that way.
I think that actual usage would count in my argument. Otherwise, you
could start including lots of machines earlier to either of the two
Burroughs boxes we are talking about - SMP 709s?
Anyone know for certain? ?Could both CPUs be running
at once?
I would actually like to see some more detailed docs on BUIC - there
seems to be very little available. Hell, I do not even know what BUIC
modules and equipment looks like, and have probably passed some of it
up, or worse, scrapped it.
--
Will