30 Jun
2009
30 Jun
'09
5:36 p.m.
From: Liam Proven
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 5:00 PM
Tom's Hardware - a popular site for PC hardware
tweakers and
overclockers - has done an ambitious article on the development of the
mainframe:
It's a little American-centric but it's not at
all bad.
*American*-centric!?! How about *IBM*-centric?!?
After the 1960s, the only non-IBM product mentioned is the (minicomputer)
VAX-11/780. (OK, *super*minicomputer, but even so...)
And in the 1960s, the only other DEC product mentioned is *the PDP-8*????
(with a brushoff for several years of successful sales prior to the -8, no
less.) Another mini, and no acknowledgement of the PDP-10 mainframe on which
the bulk of the development of the modern Internet took place.
It would be nice if they knew what they were talking about.
IMAO,
Rich