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From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Subject: [TUHS] PDP-11 questions
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 15:07:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201601262007.u0QK7LvL027562@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (raw)

> Dr. Wang invented the core memory at IBM BTW

Wang did make a magnetic-core storage device (a 2-core-per-bit
shift register) but Jay Forrester's core memory, first installed
on MIT's Whirlwind computer in 1953, is the one that actually
saw use and very quickly dominated the market.

Doug


             reply	other threads:[~2016-01-26 20:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-26 20:07 Doug McIlroy [this message]
2016-01-26 20:44 ` Clem Cole
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2016-01-26 19:36 Doug McIlroy
2016-01-26 19:59 ` Warren Toomey
     [not found] <mailman.29.1453684304.15972.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2016-01-25  3:07 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-01-25  3:09 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-01-25 12:54   ` John Cowan
2016-01-25 13:09     ` Johnny Billquist
2016-01-25 13:49     ` Johnny Billquist
2016-01-25 16:00       ` John Cowan
2016-01-25 16:17         ` Johnny Billquist
2016-01-25 16:43           ` John Cowan
2016-01-25  1:11 Noel Chiappa
2016-01-25  1:30 ` Clem cole
2016-01-24 22:40 Norman Wilson
2016-01-25  1:55 ` David Ritchie
2016-01-25  1:59   ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-25  2:14   ` Clem cole
2016-01-25 11:29 ` Tony Finch
2016-01-25 13:25   ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-25 16:18   ` Pete Turnbull
2016-01-25 19:37     ` Clem Cole
2016-01-24 22:40 Norman Wilson
2016-01-25  0:23 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-24 18:56 Noel Chiappa
     [not found] <mailman.25.1453658502.15972.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2016-01-24 18:34 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-01-24 18:30 Noel Chiappa
2016-01-24 18:36 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-24 21:10   ` John Cowan
2016-01-25  0:11 ` scj
2016-01-25  0:36   ` Clem cole
2016-01-24 18:01 Noel Chiappa
2016-01-24 17:37 Mark Longridge
2016-01-24 18:49 ` Clem Cole
2016-01-25  3:16   ` Dave Horsfall
2016-01-25  5:32     ` Warren Toomey
2016-01-25 12:27       ` Clem cole
2016-01-25 13:38         ` Lawrence Stewart
2016-01-25 14:15           ` Clem Cole
2016-01-26 19:52         ` Dave Horsfall
2016-01-26 20:41           ` Clem Cole

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