[rescue] San Antonio, TX area rescue

[Dave McGuire]

On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 07:01 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo 
+1.717.201.3366 wrote:
>> On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 02:45 PM, Jeffrey J. Nonken wrote:
>> has been forgotten.  This is illustrated by the fact that advanced
>> features, like pipelining or multiple execution units, are 
>> periodically
>> introduced in modern processors and hailed as "important new
>> developments"...but were around in the computers of the 1960s.
>>
>>    I've actually been writing a big paper about that off-and-on for 
>> many
>> months now.  Maybe I'll try to finish it soon.
>
> An old timer I worked with once used to have his own medium size
> minicomputer company.  They were making 64-bit CPUs for military use
> ... in the 1970s.

   Wide-word computers have been around for a *long* time...The CDC 6600 
had a 60-bit word.  It was released in 1964.

        -Dave

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Dave McGuire                 "You don't have Vaseline in Canada?"
St. Petersburg, FL                     -Bill Bradford