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provided up to 18 drives using disks physically compatible with IBM 2316 disks used in the 2314. The disks were formatted to provide 384 six-bit characters per sector and 27,648,000 characters per pack. The average seek time was 34 milliseconds (ms) and data transfer rate was
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1 1 2 2 2 3 word 0 7 8 7 8 9 5 +------------------+----------+-+------+ 0 | Variable field | OP |I| MF1 | +------------------+----------+-+------+ 1 |Operand descriptor 1 or indirect word |
339:+--------------------------------------+ 2 .Operand descriptor 2 or indirect word . (optional) +- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + 3 .Operand descriptor 3 or indirect word . (optional) +- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - +
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from 1970 to 1989. Honeywell acquired the line when it purchased GE's computer division in 1970 and continued to develop them under a variety of names for many years. In 1989, Honeywell sold its computer division to the French company
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The 6000 supported multiple processors and IOMs. Each processor and IOM had four ports for connection to memory; each memory module had eight ports for communication with other system components, with an interrupt cell for each port.
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1 1 2 2 2 3 3 0 7 8 7 8 9 0 5 +------------------+-----------+-+-+------+ | Y | OP |I|0| Tag | +------------------+-----------+-+-+------+
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operating system. In 1974, Honeywell released the 68/80 which added cache memory in each processor and support for a large (2-8 million word) directly addressable memory. In 1975, the 6000-series systems were renamed as
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allowed up to eight online disk drives plus an offline spare. Per disk capacity was 27.5 million characters; average access time was 72.5 ms and data transfer rate was 416,000 cps.
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allowed up to eight online disk drives plus an offline spare. Per disk capacity was 15 million characters; average access time was 87.5 ms and data transfer rate was 208,000 cps.
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in each memory module arbitrated requests from other system components (processors, etc.). Memory modules contained 128 K words of 1.2 μs
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656:. February 25, 1971. p. 425.
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121:Honeywell International, Inc.
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728:"Honeywell DPS8 - Ed Thelen"
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673:Large Systems Product Guide
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60:; 54 years ago
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799:"Multics features"
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