Talk:Ferranti Pegasus (computer)
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The reference I used (Early Brittish Computers) doesn't say what the differences are between the PEGASUS 1 and PEGASUS 2. --Bubba73 01:01, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I've just moved this article from "PEGASUS (computer)" to "Pegasus (computer)" and decapitalised the name within the article. The reason for this is, consulting a Ferranti Ltd. sales catalogue from 1959, the name is not capitalised; probably because it is not an acronym and is merely a descriptive trade name. References to this machine might need correcting elsewhere. --NicholasTurnbull 21:51, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
I've just added two photos of the Pegasus, as it is in the Science Museum in London, UK... I have many others, also a lot of the original design schematics, etc... My grandfather was part of the team that built it.... Would anything else be of interest to this article..? --LeoNerd 21:10, 27 Nov 2005 (UTC)
A pegasus computer was in use for many years at C.A.Parsons, Turbine Manufacturers in Newacastle-upon-Tyne. Several hundred programs were written in machine code, autocode and in a high level matrix interpretive language. Towards the end of its life a simulation program was developed so that all Pegasus programs could run unaltered on IBM 360 Series hardware and so Pegasus programs lived on long after the pegasus disappeared. I seem to remember that the most diffuclt part of the simulation were the 39 bit divide instructions on the 32 bit IBM machine code set. Tony Momtague , 6th April 2006
