1 Mar
2003
1 Mar
'03
1:56 a.m.
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Rick Bensene wrote:
The big part of the difference in speed between the
PDP-8 and the
Monrobot XI is that the PDP-8 used random-access magnetic core memory as
the main memory and a parallel architecture, and the Monrobot machines
used magnetic drum and a bit-serial architecture.
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Great information! Thanks, Rick.
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