Sujet : Re: Historical evolution of CPU perf
De : sarr (at) *nospam* sdf.org (Sarr Blumson)
Groupes : comp.archDate : 11. Oct 2024, 01:27:25
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MitchAlsup1 <
mitchalsup@aol.com> wrote:
On Wed, 9 Oct 2024 19:18:40 +0000, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
I remember the PDP-11/20 in the computer lab at NCR.
Last person out at night would flick the power switch OFF, and
the computer was OFF in 1/60 of a second.
First person in would flick the switch ON and the computer was
back where it was turned off in 1/60 of a second.
We used the 11/20 as a remote debug device for the 8085 cash
register machine(s) we were building.
Core memory: slow to access but also slow to forget.
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