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It was such an amazing system and it's unbelievable that this was published in 1963. Too bad it took more than 3 decades before it made it into people's homes.
by nfmangano 12y ago
It was such an amazing system and it's unbelievable that this was published in 1963. Too bad it took more than 3 decades before it made it into people's homes.
Anyone finding this interesting might find Bill Buxton's timeline of devices interesting too: http://www.billbuxton.com/inputTimeline.html http://www.billbuxton.com/inputTimeline.html
- hga 12y agoA question of $$$. See my above comment about the huge for the time memory size of the TX-2. Even the 7094 that CTSS was build on (inspiring later Multics and then UNIX(TM)) only had 2 banks of memory totaling that size, roughly half for the kernel and half for a single user program at a time. You couldn't even begin to think about until, say, Intel started mass producing their groundbreaking first DRAM chip, which had a whopping 1024 bits of memory. And, hey, it was only 21 years until Apple shipped the first Macintosh ... with 128 KiB of DRAM and 64 KiB of ROM, 3/4ths of the TX-02's single memory bank....