20 Jan
2009
20 Jan
'09
6:32 a.m.
Jim Battle wrote:
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Chapter 8 of "Advances in Computer Architecture" describes the SYMBOL
computer, designed and built buy Fairchild Camera, and operated at Iowa
State. Only one was built. The design was started in the mid 60s.
Here is an excerpt:
Tonight as I was looking for something else, I found that Gordon Bell
has an entire chapter on the SYMBOL computer, and it goes into a lot
more detail than the other book I referenced. As a bonus, it is online:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/computer_structures_pri…