Re: DEC introduces PDP-6 [was Re: IBM introduces System/360]

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From: timcaf...
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 21:07

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On Thursday, July 19, 2018 at 5:20:31 PM UTC-4, Rich Alderson wrote:
> http://gordonbell.azurewebsites.net/digital/A_Computer_that_grows_BusWeek_640314.pdf
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> DEC's PDP-6 was announced 3 weeks before the IBM system/360, with first
> customer ship in June, 1964, as opposed to IBM's FCS in October, 1965...
> 

And the CDC 6600 was introduced Sept. 1964, and ran rings around anything else at the time (if you could keep it running, the OS was buggy as hell).

          - Tim

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