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Well, it is an computer that: 1) uses architecture that has at least user-space binary compatible descendands today. 2) introduced 32b wordsize with 8b byte a
by dfox 5y ago
Well, it is an computer that:
1) uses architecture that has at least user-space binary compatible descendands today.
2) introduced 32b wordsize with 8b byte addressable memory.
3) was designed to use ASCII. (which is somewhat ironic as all the IBM big iron things are mostly synonymous with EBCDIC, which was only meant as temporary solution because ASCII was not finalized in 1964)
- iamhamm 5y agoTotally agree. The comment I was replying to asked "most important hardware announcement ever made by a tech firm?" and I was noting that in 1964 it was. That said, it's still a great read and I can imagine how cool it was :)