Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!crandell From: crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell) Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: Re: Global memory usage in the 1401 Message-ID: <3556@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Oct-84 21:59:05 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.3556 Posted: Tue Oct 2 21:59:05 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Oct-84 04:44:29 EDT References: <1689@sun.uucp>, <1373@vax2.fluke.UUCP> <145@sdcsvax.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 11 >Can you believe that this is the machine that brought us into the computer age? No. Furthermore, I can't imagine how anyone can seriously claim that it was. That title more reasonably belongs to any number of other machines. For example (this citing is surely controvertible, too), how about the 709 and its offspring? They (especially the 7094) have influenced later architectures considerably more than the 1401, unless you consider only RCA. -- Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!crandell