Talk:Whirlwind (computer)

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Nobody calls this thing "MIT Whirlwind". It's always just plain "Whirlwind", and the context make it obvious that it's not the aeroynmaic event. I'll do a stub disambig page from "Whirlwind", indicating the aerodynamic event, and linking here.

Noel 20:08, 18 Aug 2003 (UTC)

[edit] What came of the Whirlwind?

Two things on this section:

• It mentions only Ken Olsen, and claim he "led" the TX-0 effort. I believe Was Clark was the lead on the TX-0 design, and at least should be mentioned.
• It mentions that TX-1 came after TX-0, was "too ambitious" and was scaled back to the TX-2. However, The Dream Machine claims that TX-1 was the original proposal for a "Whirlwind with transistors", was nixed, TX-0 done in its place, and that TX-2 was then used as name for the follow-up to TX-0. Anyone know the facts here?

[edit] In what way was the whirlwind the first that did not replace a mechanical system?

There were no anolgues mechanically used in Tnnny breaking by Colussus.