Reproducing old machines with newer technology

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Tue Jul 14 12:55:40 CDT 2015


    > From: Paul Koning

    >> I have a hard time coming up with other machines with the same level
    >> of impact/influence, in terms of CPU internal architecture. Maybe
    >> Atlas, or the 801?

    > CDC 6600, of course.

I guess I don't know the 6600 that well (I have the book, and have skimmed it
in the past). What are the novel features in the 6600 that were widely
adopted by other machines? (I listed the Atlas because of paging, and the 801
because of RISC.)

	Noel


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