Re: PDP 11/40 system manual

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From: hanc...
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 19:03

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On Friday, August 10, 2018 at 6:10:47 PM UTC-4, John Levine wrote:

> The S/360 was a tour de force but it had plenty of uglies that people
> have been dealing with ever since, the worst of which was 24 bit
> addressing.

I think in the very early 1960s when they envisioned S/360, 24
bit (16 meg) was deemed more than adequate.  Storage was very
expensive back then. I don't believe S/360 ever existed 16 meg,
indeed, I think it took a long time until S/370 even exceeded it.

Our 370-158 had all of 6 meg, serving a large organization and
500 terminals.

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