Litton Industries Monrobot XI computers available

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Thu Feb 27 15:04:00 2003

On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, ben franchuk wrote:

> Eric Smith wrote:
>
> > The PDP-8 does closer to a million calculations per second.
>
> While Operate and Jump instructions require 1 memory cycle,
> most intructions require two memory cycles.Indirect is a
> extra cycle. Asuming about a 1.5 us memory cycle and two cycle
> intructions that is 3.0 us per instruction or 333,000 instructions
> per second. Still quite fast.

Ok, here is what I was referring to:

"It can do an average of five thousand arithmetical computations per
minute."
Received on Thu Feb 27 2003 - 15:04:00 GMT