A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing

[Chuck Guzis]

Geez, out of the entire gang of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, he 
sure missed a lot of the little fellows, didn't he?  I know--NCR made 
cash registers; GE made toasters, RCA made TVs, Honeywell made 
thermostats,   Not to mention Philco, Packard Bell, SDS, Tandem, 
Amdahl,... or Nixdorf, ICL, English Electric, Olivetti... or NEC or 
Fujitsu or any of the Soviet-era systems.

He describes the CDC6600 as "was very limited in the instructions it 
could perform".  Huh??  Compared to what?  One little-known aspect 
was that the 6600 smoked any of the IBM iron of that time when 
running COBOL.  

--Chuck