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

[Dale H. Cook]

At 11:24 PM 5/4/2016, Andy Holt wrote:

>Could someone with access to the OED please check up the first use of the term "minicomputer"

I am not the OED, but when I first saw the TX-0 and the PDP-1 at MIT in late 1964 or early 1965 I believe that I heard the term minicomputer applied to them. Certainly when I next saw them in the summer of 1967 both were being called minicomputers by the staff there.

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