[Discuss] Unix date beyond 2057

[John Blomfield]

Deryk Barker wrote:
> Richard James wrote:
>> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:50:55 -0800, John Blomfield wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> Back in the 1960's I used a Ferranti computer with a 40 bit CPU and 
>>> then an ICL with 48 bit words.     
>>
>> John, are you referring to the Feranti "Atlas".... I used that beast in
>> the late 1960's at UMIST....
>>
>>   
> The Atlas (aka the MU-3 IIRC) was the world's first virtual memory 
> machine (paging only, no segmentation) and was designed - like the 
> world's first stored-program electronic computer - at Manchester 
> University in the UK.
>
> Cambridge built a similar machine called Titan, which was still around 
> when I was there in the late '60s, although my first programs, written 
> while I was at high school, were for Imperial College's IBM 7090 and 
> the numerical analysis course I took at Cambridge - taught by Maurice 
> Wilkes, builder of the EDSAC, the world's second computer, and 
> inventor of microcode (and a lousy lecturer) - used a PDP-8.
>
Yes, I should have made it clear, the 7090 was at Imperial (at the 
moment still part of U of London) where I gave courses in Numerical 
Analysis in the Mech Eng Dept. Whether you would have found my lecturing 
any better is an open question!!!!!

John

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