[Simh] the cult of cutler

[Norman Lastovica]

I accept your story as well :-)  may well have been IAS.

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> Subject: Re: [Simh] the cult of cutler
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> >From: "Norman Lastovica" <norman.lastovica at oracle.com>
> >Subject: Re: [Simh] VUPs?
> >
> >Quick Culter story as he told it (at least the parts that I remember)...
> >
> >The 11/70 added support for a whole lot more memory with additional
> >physical address bits (virtual memory remained the same size
> >obviously) along with some other features.
> > ...
> 
> Was that 'Culter' a Freudian slip?
> 
> I'd heard the same story as far as the '11/70 support in
> a weekend' part.  However, the reason given, in the version
> I heard, was that the 11/70 and IAS were supposed to be
> announced together, IAS was late, and getting 11M up
> on the 11/70 (and subsequent annoucement of same) was
> a political attack on IAS.
> 
> Mind you, I worked in Reading at the time and heard
> the story from someone in the IAS team, so it's not
> like my sources were impartial.
> 
> dave
> 
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