Technology 1962

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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 main memory, translating the virtual addresses into real addresses. Virtual memory is still used in today’s computers as witnessed by the error message you sometimes receive when your computer is running multiple programs.
1962 marked the development of various technological expanses in communication. Bell Labs would be in the forefront of most of the changes. In 1962 Bell labs designed and launched the Telstar I communications satellite. The launch of the Telstar allowed global telephony, data communications and television broadcasting. The phrase “live via satellite” was adopted due to the capabilities of the Telstar I. In 1962 Bell Labs made further progress with the introduction of the radio paging system at Seattle’...