In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/17/2008
at 07:23 AM, Tom Marchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>"Fact is that Allen and the 300-some people who collaborated on Stretch
>invented many of the concepts that later became standard computer
>technologies. The short list includes multiprogramming, pipelining,
>memory protection, memory interleaving, and the eight-bit byte."
I don't recall memory protection on Stretch, and it was S/360 that
restricted byte handling to aligned 8-bit bytes; Stretch could handle
variable byte sizes, at least up to a word (64 bits.)
Some of the things that Stretch did pioneer include
The predecssors to the 1301 disk drive, 1403 printer and Hypertape.
The 8-bit channel architecture used on the 7000 Series for the
1301
A highly specialized form of array processing, in Harvest.
The first two may not sound like much, but had major impact.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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