AW: When did Memory- and IO Protection Emerge (Esp. in Minis)?

[Chuck Guzis]

On 05/04/2016 05:07 PM, ANDY HOLT wrote:
> 
>> Is the CDC 1700 considered to be in the family of "minicomputers"? 
>> (i.e. was the word invented before then?).
> 
> Though functionally it sort of had the minicomputer nature, it was
> physically a bit large for that term … would have been called a
> "process control" computer. I also don't think I heard the word
> "minicomputer" until a couple of years after I first saw a CDC 1700.

Well, I don't know.  By the time the Cyber 18 came out, it was a 120 VAC
powered unit that a strongish person could lift off the floor (about 90
lbs)--and functionally pretty much the same machine as the original
1700, just implemented with more advanced technology.

If that's not a minicomputer, I don't know what is.

We used them as data concentrators hooked to leased lines, card readers
and punches and various other peripherals.

If the 1700 isn't a minicomputer, you'll have to correct the Wikipedia
article.

--Chuck