Seymour J Metz wrote: >Ah, the 360/75 at Waterloo. Besides being the home of some truely >useful software (thanks, Bruce), I remember it because of an awful >novel involving a human level AI running on that machine. It was >considered a large machine at the time, but still grossly underpowered >by today's standards and obviously not up to the task.
The Adolescence of P1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adolescence_of_P-1 I read that when I was still working there. While I didn't hate it, I was painfully aware that it was being wildly optimistic about the programming. He also got the bloody highway numbers wrong, which was just sloppy, and made it clear that he hadn't actually ever been to Waterloo. Heh: "...20,000 mainframes with a total of 5,800 MB". So much memory! /s We had 3MB on the /75: one of real core and two of solid-state. A big machine indeed. P.S. Yes, Waterloo Script was amazing stuff. And Bruce is an all-around nice guy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
