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From: sxr@cs.purdue.EDU (Saul Rosen)
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Subject: Re: Top Ten Computer Architectures (was Re: UNIX)
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Date: 20 Nov 90 19:54:11 GMT
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In article <1990Nov19.123415.22488@hq.demos.su> bil@hq.demos.su (Igor L. Bel'chinskiy) writes:
>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)
      followed by 2 to 10
>IMHO, better define criteria at first.
>						Igor.

Agreed.  But I would expect that  a list of the ten most important
computer  architectures, by almost any reasonable criteria would include the
architecture of  the EDVAC in which the idea of the modern
stored program computer was formulated.  I would also expect such a
list to include the CDC 6600 which was certainly a super computer in
its time.

Saul Rosen