1960’s

• 1961

  • IBM Stretch delivered to LANL

• 1962

  • Virtual memory from U Manchester, T. Kilburn

• 1964

  • AEC urges manufacturers to look at ``radical new'' machine structures.
    • This leads to CDC Star-100, TI ASC, and Illiac-IV.
  • CDC 6600; S. Cray's design
    • Functional parallelism, leading to RISC
    • (3 times faster than the IBM Stretch)

• 1965

  • DEC ships first PDP-8 & IBM ships 360
  • First CS PhD U of Penn. Richard Wexelblat
  • Wilkinson’s The Algebraic Eigenvalue Problem published

• 1966

  • DARPA contract with U of I to build the ILLIAC IV
  • Fortran 66

• 1967

  • Forsythe & Moler published
    • Fortran, Algol and PLI

• 1969

  • DARPANET work begins
    • 4 computers connected
      • UC-SB,UCLA, SRI and U of Utah
    • CDC 7600
      • Pipelined architecture; 3.1 Mflop/s
    • Unix developed Thompson and Ritchie

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