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From: lum@clipper.cis.ohio-state.edu (Lum Johnson)
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Subject: Re: Historical architectural advances???
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Date: 27 Sep 90 23:33:25 GMT
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In article <2696@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <4713@latvax8.lat.oz> CCHD@latvax8.lat.oz (Huw Davies - La Trobe University Computer Centre) writes:
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>| 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?

Here's a brief excerpt from _The History of TOPS_ by Peter J Hurley,
manager of software enginerring for the PDP-6/10 product line, as
presented at the Spring 1984 DECUS Symposium:

	The PDP-6 was first shipped in June of 1964.  It was followed
	by the KA-10 in 1967, about 1.5 times the power of the PDP-6.
	The KI-10, about 1.8 times the KA-10, was released in 1972.
	The KL-10 was introduced in 1975 [sic] for TOPS-10, about 2.5
	times the KI.  In 1972 [sic], the first TOPS-20 KL-10 was
	released.  In 1978, the 2060 [KL-10 Model B], 2020 [KS-10],
	and 1091 came out.

Maybe I should post the whole thing to `alt.folklore.computers'?

Lum
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