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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | Re: A lovely comment |
| Date: | Fri, 22 Jan 2021 15:36:29 -0800 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.6.1 |
On 1/13/21 1:28 AM, Hans Åberg wrote:
My first computer was a SWTPC 6800 at 980 KHz!
Hah, the first computer I used was a GE 225 codesigned by Steven Spielberg's father. It took 36 µs to add two integers, and its memory cycle time was 21 µs. Its RAM had only 8,192 20-bit words, which I had to share with up to 19 other simultaneous users.
https://www.ge.com/news/reports/basic-necessities-how-ge-helped-launch-the-computing-language-that-changed-the-world
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