[Simh] pdp11 and unix

[Johnny Billquist]

Well, 1976 is a far cry from the 1950s...

  Johnny


Bill Cunningham <billcun at suddenlink.net> skrev: (27 februari 2016 23:59:06 CET)
>Calculators I'm thinking of are "HandHeld" and the IC by Jack Kilby.
>
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kilby
>
>1976. The "year the slide rule died" They say.
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Johnny Billquist 
>  To: simh at trailing-edge.com 
>  Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2016 5:05 PM
>  Subject: Re: [Simh] pdp11 and unix
>
>
>  On 2016-02-27 20:46, Paul Koning wrote:
>  >
>>> On Feb 27, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Bill Cunningham
><billcun at suddenlink.net> wrote:
>  >>
>>> Well that's certainly before ICs I think that was in the 1950s and
>it was some early calculators that killed slide rules. What kind of
>"processor" were they using? I'm not so sure there was real HLL before
>Adm. Hopper. And no binary by Babbge. Do you have any links or anything
>from the '40s?
>  >
>> HLL?  I was talking about assembler...  Anyway, I don't believe COBOL
>was the first HLL, though it certainly was fairly early.
>
>  The first HLL ought to have been FORTRAN. Lisp might have been the 
>  second, but I'm not entirely sure.
>
> I'm not sure what kind of calculators Bill are thinking of. But until 
>the early 70s, calculators were usually mechanical, or
>electromechanical 
>  things with cogwheels, and definitely worked in decimal.
>  No processors in there...
>
>  Johnny
>
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