Richard Erlacher wrote::
<< Golly! That does bring back the memories . . . but wasn't the CDC6xxx
family 64 bits? I cut my teeth on that one, back in the mid 1960's and it
seems that it (the 6600) was a dual-processor version of the 64-bit 6400.
The CDC 6400, 6600, 7600 all were 60 bit, definitely.
The Cray-1 is the first 64-bit machine in the Seymour Cray line.
Those were the days . . . FORTRAN-II, SCOPE OS, COMPASS assembler . . .
batch processing . . . (that meant you wrote your code on a 24-line
80-column "coding sheet" and, when finished, gave them to a woman behind a
door with a small window in it . . . and got your error listing a few days
later) . . . I'd have given a week's pay for an hour in that room behind
the door . . . mini-skirts . . . (you do remember keypunch operators and
Hollerith cards, don't you?)
Dick >>
It does bring back memories !
John G. Zabolitzky
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