WOW. How did it use drum as main memmory? Did it have like 1K of real memory
and have hardware to move from drum upon address resolution? Or is drum a
similar architecture to ram?
Jon Perryman.
From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net
On Sun, 8 Sep 2013 09:58:29 -0700, Jon Perryman wrote:
WOW. How did it use drum as main memmory? Did it have like 1K of real memory
and have hardware to move from drum upon address resolution? Or is drum a
similar architecture to ram?
Nope. None of the above. The drum was real. From:
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09/08/2013
at 09:58 AM, Jon Perryman jperr...@pacbell.net said:
WOW. How did it use drum as main memmory?
Same way as any other drum computer.
Did it have like 1K of real memory
A drum *is* real memory. In this case, 2K 10
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