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From: Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] A New History of Modern Computing - my thoughts
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 04:28:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <06fb60f8-a3a3-c959-f750-2d5862e83727@bitsavers.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D7F6EAFD-8053-4CD8-91AC-43F32049FE20@cfcl.com>

On 12/1/21 12:46 AM, Rich Morin wrote:

> The DG Nova (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_General_Nova) came out in 1969, just a bit before the PDP-11 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11).  My impression, when I (later on) looked at the Nova ISA, was that they had moved in the right direction from the AQX approach, but not quite far enough.  DEC, IMNSHO, got it right.  (ducking).

https://history-computer.com/dec-pdp-11-computer/

is a concise summary of where the pdp-11 architecture came from
(Harold McFarland at CMU) and the origins of the nova from the
and the connection to the dec pdp-x

original source documents can be found at bitsavers


  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-01 12:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-28 20:26 Jon Steinhart
2021-11-28 21:07 ` Rob Pike
2021-11-28 21:15   ` Jon Steinhart
2021-11-28 21:31     ` Ken Thompson
2021-11-28 21:47       ` Jon Steinhart
2021-11-28 22:17         ` Rob Pike
2021-11-29  0:19           ` Clem Cole
2021-11-29  1:12             ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-29  2:23               ` Bakul Shah
2021-11-30 19:27                 ` Ralph Corderoy
2021-12-01  8:46                   ` Rich Morin
2021-12-01 12:28                     ` Al Kossow [this message]
2021-11-30  3:18               ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-29  1:18             ` George Michaelson
2021-11-29  1:36             ` Bakul Shah
2021-11-29  1:47       ` Bakul Shah
2021-11-29  7:46         ` arnold
2021-11-29  7:52           ` arnold
2021-11-29 14:44             ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-29 12:11         ` Michael Kjörling
2021-11-28 21:23   ` Thomas Paulsen
2021-11-28 21:39     ` Steve Nickolas
2021-11-28 22:41       ` Ron Natalie
2021-11-28 21:40   ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-29 15:37 ` Phil Budne
2021-11-28 23:12 Noel Chiappa
2021-11-28 23:35 ` Adam Thornton
2021-11-29  1:53   ` John Cowan
2021-11-29 13:48   ` Dan Halbert

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