On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Hans B PUFAL wrote:
> OK, I've sent this question to the IBM Haus of History in Sindelfingen
> in Germany. They have a working 650 so should be able to provide an
> answer. I'll keep you informed.
I didn't think of doing that! Thanks!!
> The periodic interrupt (50 or 60 times a second depending on which side
> of the pond you were) was most definitely available in 1964 on the IBM
> System/360. At each tick, the hardware decremented a word in memory and
> when it overflowed to zero, a program interrupt was invoked. The handler
> would do whatever it needed and reset the memory word.
>
> Earlier IBM machines also some form of this feature. On the 7094
> modified for CTSS it was an IBM special feature.
Yes, from what I've been told, the 7090/7094 had a clock feature of some
sort.
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