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From: marc@hpfcdc.HP.COM ('Thelonious' Sabatella)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: OS design driven by architecture? (was : Re: printf, etc.)
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Date: 20 Jan 89 00:23:36 GMT
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/ hpfcdc:comp.os.misc / bauer@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (Jeff Bauer) /  2:49 pm  Jan 18, 1989 /

>I understand it that when Don Bitzer at U of Ill. looked for CPU 
>horsepower in the early 60's for PLATO IV (the current version of 
>PLATO that exists on the Cybers) Control Data gear was pretty 
>much the only choice...

Maybe so, but I'll bet a lot of that had to do with TUTOR, "the official
arcane programming lanaguage of the Super Bowl (as well as PLATO)" which kind
of assumes that the natural wordsize is 60 bits.  Or does PLATO IV predate
TUTOR?

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Marc Sabatella (an ex FSU PLATO-ite)
HP Colorado Language Lab
marc%hpfcrt@hplabs.hp.com