Parallel operation in the control data 6600

  • Authors:
  • James E. Thornton

  • Affiliations:
  • Control Data Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota

  • Venue:
  • AFIPS '64 (Fall, part II) Proceedings of the October 27-29, 1964, fall joint computer conference, part II: very high speed computer systems
  • Year:
  • 1964

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Abstract

About four years ago, in the summer of 1960, Control Data began a project which culminated last month in the delivery of the first 6600 Computer. In 1960 it was apparent that brute force circuit performance and parallel operation were the two main approaches to any advanced computer.