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From: phil@unisoft.UUCP (Phil Ronzone)
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Subject: Re: Global memory usage in the 1401
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Date: Mon, 8-Oct-84 19:15:02 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  8 19:15:02 1984
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>> >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.