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From: bil@hq.demos.su (Igor' Bel'chinskiy)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Top Ten Computer Architectures (was Re: UNIX)
Message-ID: <1990Nov19.123415.22488@hq.demos.su>
Date: 19 Nov 90 12:34:15 GMT
References: <11613@alice.att.com> <4868@trantor.harris-atd.com> <4876@trantor.harris-atd.com>
Reply-To: bil@hq.demos.su (Igor L. Bel'chinskiy)
Organization: DEMOS, Moscow, USSR
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In article <4876@trantor.harris-atd.com> chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) writes:
>Ed Borasky's Top Ten Computer Architectures:
>
>1. Babbage's Analytical Engine (first computer)
>2. The IAS machines (ILLIAC I, JOHHNIAC, etc. -- the 
>   Von Neumann/Goldstine/Burks designs)
>3. The IBM 7030 (STRETCH) -- the first supercomputer
>4. System/360 -- the first GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTER (not specialized for
>   commercial or scientific jobs)
>5. The PDP-8 -- the first commercially successful minicomputer
>6. The FPS AP-120B -- the best array processor, first 
>   LONG INSTRUCTION WORD machine
>7. The Cray X-MP -- the most successful and best TRUE SUPERCOMPUTER
>8. The Connection machine -- the most innovative massively parallel SIMD
>   machine
>9. Intel's Touchstone Delta -- the best MIMD design to date.
>10. The MOSTEK 6502 -- brains of the Apple 2, Commodore 64 and LOTS of
>    video games!
>
>Those are MY nominees; clearly others will have favorites.

If you compare computer architectures from commercial success point of view
than you skip electronic watches and HP calculators. :-)

If you compare computer architectures from flames' density per
instruction set point of view
than uncoditionally SYSTEM/360 must be second - next after
Intel 80x86 line. (sorry, no ':-)')

IMHO, better define criteria at first.
						Igor.