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From: andrew@jung.harlqn.uucp (Andrew Watson)
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Subject: Re: History of personal computing (LONG)
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   You'll find copies of several seminal (good word, that) papers of relevance
in "Computer Structures: Principles & Examples", Siewiorek et al, McGraw-Hill
(all this from memory, so I may not have the title quite right). This
collection of reprints includes the Ethernet paper, the Alto paper and others
(including Wilkes' *original* microprogramming paper!), and is a happy hunting
ground for architectural archeologists like me.

   On a more-or-less related note, the above-mentioned book contains plenty of
material on the PDP-8 and -11, but nothing on the DG Nova, which I'm told was
quite interesting, architecturally. Can anyone help me out with pointers to
information on this?

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			       Regards,

                                   Andrew.

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