Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unisoft.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amd!dual!unisoft!phil From: phil@unisoft.UUCP (Phil Ronzone) Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: Re: Global memory usage in the 1401 Message-ID: <350@unisoft.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Oct-84 19:15:02 EDT Article-I.D.: unisoft.350 Posted: Mon Oct 8 19:15:02 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Oct-84 08:02:48 EDT References: <1689@sun.uucp>, <1373@vax2.fluke.UUCP> <145@sdcsvax.UUCP>, <3556@ut-sally.UUCP> Organization: UniSoft Corp., Berkeley Lines: 20 >> >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 Well, in terms of numbers, I believe that there were more 1401's produced than any other 2nd generation machine. Yes, even more than the PDP-8's! I don't claim this, IBM does and DEC never claimed otherwise. The 1401 contibuted heavily to the concept of variable length byte move instruction in the 360, a now-totally-assumed concept. Yes - the 1401 probably was the machine that brought us into the computer age.