[TUHS] A New History of Modern Computing - my thoughts

Al Kossow aek at bitsavers.org
Wed Dec 1 22:28:42 AEST 2021


On 12/1/21 12:46 AM, Rich Morin wrote:

> The DG Nova (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_General_Nova) came out in 1969, just a bit before the PDP-11 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11).  My impression, when I (later on) looked at the Nova ISA, was that they had moved in the right direction from the AQX approach, but not quite far enough.  DEC, IMNSHO, got it right.  (ducking).

https://history-computer.com/dec-pdp-11-computer/

is a concise summary of where the pdp-11 architecture came from
(Harold McFarland at CMU) and the origins of the nova from the
and the connection to the dec pdp-x

original source documents can be found at bitsavers



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