Technology_1962

Technology 1962 Technology 1962 In 1962 technology was being further advanced by companies such as Bell Labs (now Lucent), IBM, General Electric, Digital Equipment, and by students at MIT and other colleges. These advances in technology would set the stage for items on the market today. 1962 saw the development of various advances in computer capabilities, communications, and electronics. Progress was also made in space exploration and manufacturing techniques. One of the more prominent advances in computer technology was the first use of virtual memory (VM). Ferranti’s Atlas computer was the first computer with the technology. VM contains twice as many addresses as main memory. A program using all virtual memory, therefore, would not be able to fit in main memory all at once. Nevertheless, the computer could execute such a program by copying into main memory those portions of the program needed at any given point during execution. To facilitate copying virtual memory into real memory, the operating system divides virtual memory into pages, each of which contains a fixed number of addresses. Each page is stored on a disk until it is needed. When the page is needed, the operating system copies it from disk to 1962, computer, memory, technology, first, virtual, system, labs, bell, today’s, sabre, progress, pdp-1, main, internet, communications, called, addresses, world, today, telstar, technological, systems, satellite, program, operating, one, needed, manufacturing, made, launched, later, ibm, general, equipment