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Notes:
Ferrite core memory used from 1953 until the mid-1970s
A/D and D/A conversion -- invention of the modem
Light pen -- precursor to the mouse
Multiprocessing -- did not get to the Wintel world until 1995
Real-time database management
Distributed processing -- PDP-11 and VAX
Timesharing -- OS-360, TX2
Interactive displays -- Xerox
Networking -- IBM, DEC, ARPA
Marginal checking for component failure -- intelligent devices
Memory cycle-stealing -- LISP machines
COMPOOL -- an area in system memory shared by
various subroutines; re-emerged in COBOL
500,000 line real- time executive -- BIGGEST EVER
