Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : commodorejohn (at) *nospam* gmail.com (John Ames)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 27. Feb 2025, 17:03:10
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On 26 Feb 2025 19:51:56 -0500
Rich Alderson <
news@alderson.users.panix.com> 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 ...
Mr. Ames's suspicion is unfounded. The 18 bit systems were neither
awkward nor unsuccessful.
I yield to those with firsthand knowledge - but I do wonder about their
eventual abandonment (per Wikipedia, the last -15 was produced in 1979,)
when both the -8 and -10 were supported well into the early '80s.
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