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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: GE Instruction Set( Was: Re: Historical architectural advances???
Message-ID: <2701@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 28 Sep 90 17:36:37 GMT
References: <2696@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <6828@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <6828@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de> kirchner@informatik.uni-kl.de (Reinhard Kirchner) writes:

| >   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
|        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| Which Machine is this ?

  It was the GE 600 line, then the GE 6000 line, Then Honeywell 6000,
then some with 66's and 68's (66 was for GCOS, 68 for Multics), then DPS
line. They are still available, although I think parts are made in Japan
now.
-- 
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.