OT: Language for the ages

[Jules Richardson]

William Donzelli wrote:
>>Hmm, interesting. In what ways other than the processor-memory model 
>>could things have evolved in the early years? It'd be intersting to 
>>speculate where computing might be today if it had evolved down some 
>>totally different path very early on...
> 
> 
> How about the model with memory and processor being one? The "closest"
> production machines like this were probably the CM-1 and CM-2.

I'm probably wrong, but aren't they just lots of interconnected 
processor-memory machines though? OK, the big picture looks a bit 
different from a typical machine, but I'd assumed that on a smaller 
scale internally they weren't anything particularly ground-breaking. 
Very little in the way of CM resources out there on the 'net though so I 
know virtually nothing of the hardware other than it looks darn cool ;)

cheers

Jules