>By the time IBM introduced System/360, scientific calculations had shifted >to floating point and mechanical calculators were no longer a competitor.
... but the PDP-6 and the S/360 are roughly contemporary - both were introduced around 1964. I guess IBM was more forward thinking than DEC was at the time :-) Of course DEC had a prior history with 18 bit computers, so I'm sure 36 seemed like a more natural choice. Bob Armstrong _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
