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Control Data Corporation's Peripheral Systems Group was both a hardware and a software development unit that functioned in the 1970s [43] [44] [45] and 1980s. [ 46 ] Their services including development and marketing of IBM-oriented (operating) systems software. [ 46 ]
1965 Control Data Corporation established Control Data Institutes in the United States. 1967 The first foreign Institute was established in Frankfurt. 1976 The PLATO computer-based education system was announced. 1977 PLATO Systems were implemented at all United States Institutes. 1978 Institutes and learning centers numbered sixty-nine worldwide.
The Cyber-70 series is a minor upgrade from the earlier systems. The Cyber-73 was largely the same hardware as the CDC 6400 - with the addition of a Compare and Move Unit (CMU). The CMU instructions speeded up comparison and moving of non-word aligned 6-bit character data. The Cyber-73 could be configured with either one or two CPUs.
Dayforce, formerly Ceridian, [3] is a descendant of Control Data Corporation (CDC). In 1992, Ceridian Corporation was founded as an information services company from the restructuring of CDC, a computer services and manufacturing company founded in 1957.
The CDC 6600 was the flagship of the 6000 series of mainframe computer systems manufactured by Control Data Corporation. [8] [9] Generally considered to be the first successful supercomputer, it outperformed the industry's prior recordholder, the IBM 7030 Stretch, by a factor of three.
Control Data Corporation software (3 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Control Data Corporation" ... ETA Systems; L. Laser Magnetic Storage International; N. Nielsen Audio;
SCOPE is a multiprogramming operating system capable of running up to eight jobs, called control points, at one time. One control point is used for system functions. [1]: p.1-2 Later versions increased this limit to 15. SCOPE runs on the 6x00's peripheral processors (PPs). "A central processor (CP)... is completely within the power of every PP ...
The CDC 1700 is a 16-bit word minicomputer, manufactured by the Control Data Corporation with deliveries beginning in May 1966. [1] Over the years there were several versions. The original 1700 was constructed using air-cooled CDC 6600-like cordwood logic modules and core memory, although later models used different technology.