24 Jan
2017
24 Jan
'17
10:19 p.m.
On 01/24/2017 10:01 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
And, the 7074 was a serious computer, given the
vintage. Either 4 or
6 us core cycle time was QUITE good in 1961 or so. 10 us
instruction execution time was pretty decent.
I find the whole period amazing. Consider that the 709 was introduced
in mid 1958. It's only 6 years to the S/360. It seems that when
transistor manufacture matured enough, the floodgates really opened.
After 1958, nobody but developing or Warsaw pact countries even
considered vacuum tube computing.
--Chuck