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    The GE 645 mainframe computer was a development of the GE 635 for use in the Multics project. This was the first computer that implemented a configurable...
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  • operating system. Multics was supported by virtual memory additions made in the GE 645. The 600-series CPU operates on 36-bit words,: II-17  and addresses are...
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    General Electric (redirect from GE)
    1964 to 1969, GE and Bell Laboratories (which soon dropped out) joined with MIT to develop the Multics operating system on the GE 645 mainframe computer...
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    developing an experimental time-sharing operating system called Multics for the GE-645 mainframe. Multics introduced many innovations, but also had many problems...
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    was developed on the GE 645 computer, which was specially designed for it; the first one was delivered to MIT in January 1967. GE offered their earlier...
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    Ken Thompson worked for Bell Labs on the Multics operating system on a GE 645 mainframe. During his work, Thompson developed Space Travel on the system...
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    GE-635 and GE-645, although GECOS on multiprocessor GE-635 systems ran in a master-slave asymmetric fashion, unlike Multics on multiprocessor GE-645 systems...
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  • the DEC PDP-7 and PDP-11 minicomputers using early Unix, and Honeywell GE 645 36-bit mainframes running the operating system GCOS. The earliest PDP-7...
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  • page table in main memory for mapping, the IBM System/360 Model 67 and the GE 645, both had a small associative memory as a cache for accesses to the in-memory...
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  • Stanford University 1966 MUSIC V was developed by Mathews and J. Miller on a GE 645 in 1966 at Bell Labs MUSIC V was considerably augmented at IRCAM in Paris...
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