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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 10:46:05 EDT
Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: keith reid-green <kreid-green@ETS.ORG>
Subject: Re: 1401 architecture
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I don't disagree with anything Larry Press said about the 1401. The word "byte" kinda slipped out while I was typing. I recall describing the 1401 to a group of students, including some for whom English wasn't their native language. When I mentioned the word "character" I got an immediate response.
Their only exposure to the word "character" was in reference to people, as in "He's quite a character."
Naturally, people learn from past experience and in that respect I suppose you could say that the 1401 and 1620 influenced the 360 design, but from a hardware design viewpoint I think the differences are more obvious than the similarities.
Keith Reid-Green
KReid-Green@ets.org
Princeton, NJ
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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: keith reid-green <kreid-green@ETS.ORG>
Subject: Re: 1401 architecture
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
I don't disagree with anything Larry Press said about the 1401. The word "byte" kinda slipped out while I was typing. I recall describing the 1401 to a group of students, including some for whom English wasn't their native language. When I mentioned the word "character" I got an immediate response.
Their only exposure to the word "character" was in reference to people, as in "He's quite a character."
Naturally, people learn from past experience and in that respect I suppose you could say that the 1401 and 1620 influenced the 360 design, but from a hardware design viewpoint I think the differences are more obvious than the similarities.
Keith Reid-Green
KReid-Green@ets.org
Princeton, NJ
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