>speaker. Among other things that day she said "In pioneer days they used
>oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn't budge a log, they didn't
>try to grow a larger ox. We shouldn't be trying for bigger computers, but
>for more systems of computers."
Datapoint with ARC, "Attached Resource Computer", (a component of which
later was known as ARCNET) in 1976 (5 years before Ethernet) more or less
pioneered the idea of PC's linked at high-speed to accomplish much bigger
tasks than any one PC. Apollo Domain was next.
Datapoint even produced the first desktop PC in 1970, shown at the Fall
Joint Computer Conference later known as Comdex. TI and Intel bid replace
PC with a one-chip CPU. Their CPU's ran at 250 KHhz, too slow, but "memory
mfr" Intel kept plugging away and came up with the 8008, 8080, 8086, 80286,
... you know the rest.
The many-oxen-to-pull-biggercarts analogy was one used frequently in early
ARC documentation.
One of the key systems programmers of ARCNET couldn't mention Cap'n Grace
Hopper without the prefix of "legendary" or "pantheon", desparately
striving to create a crebilizing history for an infantile industry.
Len
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