The Progress of Technology at Hewlett-Packard
As hard as it is to imagine today in the world of technology companies, dot-com blowouts and single product plays, Hewlett-Packard's first computer was introduced almost four decades ago. From this early generation of machines—the 'Instrument Automator' and the general-purpose “alpha”—the basic groundwork had been laid to develop the fledging operating system and system software, all of which had to run on a 16-bit-per-word, 8 kilobyte system.
The hardware for the “alpha” project became known commercially as the HP 3000, which targeted the general-purpose business market in the early 1970's. The demands of the nascent operating system increased with each successive rollout, and it was clear that to ...
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