On 9/23/22 09:53, Paul Koning wrote: > Those are good examples, but is it "many" or just those two and maybe one or > two more? For example, Burroughs and IBM mainframes were both very much > "lights and switches" control panel type machines. For that matter, so were > the other CDC products; the 6000 series was a bit of an outlier I think.
How many supercomputers were there in the 1960s? I suppose you could count the 360/195 as a ridiculous example of the opposite approach, but eventually, even IBM saw the light. --Chuck
