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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Historical architectural advances???
Message-ID: <2696@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 27 Sep 90 17:11:21 GMT
References: <4713@latvax8.lat.oz>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <4713@latvax8.lat.oz> CCHD@latvax8.lat.oz (Huw Davies - La Trobe University Computer Centre) writes:

| DEC PDP-6, PDP-10
| 	- the first commercially available general purpose timesharing
| 	  system.

  GE was delivering the 265 in 1966, what was the timeframe of the PDP-6?

| What about some of the smaller (no longer operating) companies, such as
| RCA, General Electric, Honeywell, Univac etc.

  GE sold to Honeywell, was #4 or #5 at the time of the sale, systems
with that instruction set are still being sold. Univac merged to be
Sperry-Univac, then remerged to be UNISYS. I don't know if the Univac
instruction set is included in current offerings, they certainly don't
seem to have merged their other lines much.

-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
    VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.