[Discussion] IBM Stretch Computer

[Julian Thomas]

On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:27:34 -0800 (PST) Thomas Clayton wrote:
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>"It is immensely ingeious,immensely complicated, and
> extremely effective but somehow at the same time crude, wasteful,
> and inelegant, and one feels that there must be a better way
> of doing things."
>--- C. Strachey (speaking not of Windows
> but of the IBM Stretch computer in 1962)

A fair assessment of Stretch as compared to later versions of 370 and XA mainframes (although 
they in their own right introduced 'immensely complicated' mechanisms, and some of the 
architectural gimmicks and constraints were thought by some to be 'crude and wasteful').

Can I say PER?

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