Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : commodorejohn (at) *nospam* gmail.com (John Ames)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 26. Feb 2025, 00:19:41
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On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 23:02:32 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <
ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
I wonder why DEC’s 18-bit range weren’t more popular; though I think
they had less consistency between members of the range than DEC’s
other product families.
I suspect that, in the computer market of the early '60s, they ended up
as the awkward middle child - serious big-iron number-crunching was
better served by the -10, and small labs/offices/embedded applications
could get a basic computer cheaper with the -12 (and later the -11.)
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