Re: IBM 9020 FAA/ATC Systems from 1960's

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From: jav... John Varela
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 19:06

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On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 13:50:07, "Daniel House" <d.h...@computer.org> wrote:

> Was Test and Set invented for this purpose?

I believe yes.

> It surprised me--I thought TS had to be older than that.

I don't think so.
 
> One last question about this machine (I promise--for now)... Was there
> a separate principles of operations published for it, since it introduced
> a number of instructions (whether or not TS)?
 
Sorry, I don't recall.

-- 
    John Varela

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