Editing TX-2 (section)

== Specifications ==
The TX-2 was a [[transistor]]-based computer using the then-huge amount of 64[[kibi-|K]] [[36-bit computing|36-bit]] [[Word (computer architecture)|word]]s of [[magnetic-core memory]]. The TX-2 became operational in 1958.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4iU-AQAAIAAJ&q=%22TX-2%22+1958|title=Computers and People|date=1961|publisher=Berkeley Enterprises|pages=312|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K4YlDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22TX-2%22+1958&pg=PA131|title=The Machine in the Ghost: Digitality and Its Consequences|last=Boast|first=Robin|date=2017-03-15|publisher=Reaktion Books|isbn=9781780237879|pages=131–132|language=en}}</ref> Because of its powerful capabilities, [[Ivan Sutherland]]'s revolutionary [[Sketchpad]] program was developed for and ran on the TX-2.<ref>Reilly, Edwin D. (2003) [https://archive.org/details/milestonesincomp0000reil/page/261 ''Milestones in Computer Science and Information Technology''] Greenwood Publishing Group {{ISBN|9781573565219}} pg 261</ref><ref>Kalay, Yehuda E. (2004) [https://books.google.com/books?id=BDboJQJvUq8C&pg=PA66 ''Architecture's New Media: Principles, Theories, and Methods of Computer-aided Design''] MIT Press {{ISBN|9780262112840}} pg 66</ref> One of its key features was the ability to directly interact with the computer through a graphical display.<ref>Naughton, John (1999): A brief history of the future: the origins of the internet, London, p. 71</ref>

The [[compiler]] was developed by [[Lawrence Roberts (scientist)|Lawrence Roberts]] while he was studying at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lawrence |first=Roberts G. |date=June 1963 |title=Machine perception of three dimensional solids |url=https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/11589 |journal=PhD Thesis |pages=82}}</ref>