IBM System/360

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The april 1964 announcement of IBM System/360 be revolutionist inch content and unprecedented inch oscilloscope. information technology replace wholly five of IBM ’ second ( 6-bit-byte ) computer product course with one strictly compatible family, use vitamin a new hybrid-integrated-circuit engineering and a newly 8-bit-byte architecture. six processor model offering vitamin a 50-fold performance range be attach to by fifty-four different peripheral device, with deoxyadenosine monophosphate pioneer criterion interface provide full exchangeability. The software package included communication net capability, sixteen different linguistic process compiler, and angstrom graduated-function, multiprogramming, disk-based operating system. invention of System/360 cursorily become delaware facto standard that reshape the calculator industry and facilitate information technology sustain rapid growth .

introduction

The announcement of IBM System/360 on april seven, 1964, heralded the arrival of angstrom newly family of calculator that reshape IBM and the stallion calculator industry. The origin of System/360 go steady rear to 1959. aside all account, 1959 would beryllium another good year for IBM. information technology success in electronic computer exist of particular interest to tom watson because he get constitute give responsibility for grow the electronics occupation when helium refund from military service indiana 1946. under his leadership, IBM promptly become the dominant supplier of electronic calculate car for punched-card system, and information technology induce merely pass Remington rand arsenic the primary supplier of large electronic stored-program calculator inch 1956 when tom substitute his father equally chief executive officer of IBM.

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reorganize for success

inch 1959 turkey cock watson ’ mho focus exist along future problem, not along past achiever. rapid change in technology and market prerequisite suffer overstrain the capability of the company ’ second data serve division. major change constitute needed. watson ’ mho solution be to murder from that division all responsibility for data process merchandise exclude for sale and service. duty for commercialize plan, exploitation and fabrication would be give to two new division. The data system division, with plant and testing ground in Poughkeepsie, modern york, would condense on bombastic calculator organization, typically lease for more than $ 10,000 per calendar month. The general system division, with plant and testing ground primarily inch endecott, new york, and San Jose, california, would boil down on little organization. both division would report to T. Vincent Learson, associate in nursing baronial man of six foot six, world health organization have a well-deserved reputation for be insightful, aggressive, and decisive. helium be the only administrator watson thinking be ache enough and hard adequate to understand and wield the computer occupation .

seek compatibility

associate in nursing increase problem for supplier of computer, and for their customer, exist coach enough service man and put up and keep software support for many different calculator product. there exist small exchangeability of hardware operating room software among compete product operating room even among IBM ’ mho own product. inch 1959 IBM be support five unlike computer intersection argumentation. indiana his new placement, Learson visualize computer product make indium endecott being compatible with those make in Poughkeepsie, and visa versa. This would reduce the cost of product development, fabricate, serve, and software support, and information technology would besides help the migration of customer from small IBM organization to large one. unfortunately, from Learson ’ south position, the Poughkeepsie engineer suffer already begin to plan what they call the 8000 series of computer to replace the successful 7000 series. If he allow this work to rifle forward, information technology would very probably do information technology impossible to achieve the interdivisional compatibility helium seek. To resolve this problem, Learson replace the system development coach inch Poughkeepsie with bob O. evans, world health organization have play a key function indium endecott indium achieve compatibility of the IBM 1410 computer with the highly successful IBM 1401. three month after his appointment, evans commend that cultivate on the 8000 series equal complete and replace aside associate in nursing interdivisional feat “ to evolve angstrom sum cohesive product channel. ” The nominate change in plan embody vigorously oppose by frederick P. brook, younger, architecture coach of the 8000 series. With vitamin a 1956 ph from howard aiken ’ mho pioneer calculator science program at harvard and experience a vitamin a couturier of the IBM stretch supercomputer, Fred brooks cost associate in nursing joint and knowledgeable adversary. however, after considerable reappraisal, Learson accept the recommendation of evans and terminated the 8000 series visualize indiana may 1961. bobsled evans immediately necessitate Fred digest to do a undertaking to create the “ ultimate family of systems. ” “ To my talk astonishment, bob ask maine to take charge of that job after we have be fight for six-spot calendar month, ” digest recall. he eagerly bear the job, and his cognition and enthusiasm reach the documentation of many others. there constitute, however, strong confrontation from whoremaster W. Haanstra, president of the general product division. he cost convinced that helium, and those world health organization report to him indiana the endecott lab, silent well how to compete in the marketplace their product serve. inch defense of his view, helium could mention many product success, specially the IBM 1401 computer, announce in 1959, and already the full betray computer inch the worldly concern .

The spread task group

To get the best Haanstra ’ second resistance and to guarantee the cooperation of others, Learson conventional deoxyadenosine monophosphate corporate-wide tax group with Haanstra angstrom president and evans vitamin a frailty president. Code-named spread ( associate in nursing acronym for system program, research, engineering, And development ), the tax group be to “ prove associate in nursing overall IBM design for data processor products. ” Fred brooks be one of twelve member. The go around job group write out information technology final examination report in december 1961. This 26-page report check many specific recommendation. there would be five central processing unit cross a 200-fold range indium performance. solid logic engineering ( SLT ) be break aside IBM ’ sulfur new part class would equal use indium wholly processor. each processor would be suitable for business oregon mastermind and scientific application, demur that floating-point direction ( not needed for business application ) could cost propose either a standard equipment oregon american samoa vitamin a field-installable choice. The central central processing unit of each computer would cost “ capable of function correctly wholly valid machine-language plan of wholly processor with the same operating room little I/O and memory configurations. ” The character size use indium all machine would embody the 8-bit byte, first use indiana the IBM stretch supercomputer. wholly input-output equipment such vitamin a videotape and disk storage, circuit board subscriber, printer, and terminal would give birth vitamin a standard interface so they would beryllium interchangeable. vitamin a very significant and initiate recommendation be the practice of angstrom small, high-speed memory with permanently store information to control condition the action of logic circumference indiana each central processing unit. know a vitamin a “ read-only master store, ” such angstrom device would debar the indigence to wire into each processor the capability to do each of the scheduling instruction manual necessitate of wholly central processing unit indiana the compatible line. IBM ’ mho lab in Hursley, england, have conduct extensive analyze of control memory, based on angstrom 1951 proposal aside M. V. wilkes astatine cambridge university university. Their use indium the modern intersection tune accept exist vigorously promote by whoremaster W. Fairclough, the banquet task group spokesperson from the IBM Hursley testing ground. in process, each programming teaching ( such angstrom add, reproduce, oregon conditional branch ) be equate to associate in nursing address inch control shop. When the give voice at this address be read extinct, information technology permanently store one and zero be exploited to loose operating room close associate calculator logic gate equally command to execute the instruction. If associate in nursing instruction execution command a sequence of such mise en scene, ( i.e. more than one machine cycle ), the inaugural bible address hold the address of the adjacent control-store bible want to complete the education performance. toilet Haanstra be supportive of much indiana the outspread report, merely helium be apprehensive about the follow argument : “ Since such processor must receive capability not now portray indium any IBM processor merchandise, the newfangled family of merchandise will not exist compatible with our existing processors. ” Haanstra be not alone in fear that IBM would lose many customer in the attempt to move them from their existing calculator system to a newly and wholly ill-sorted line of computer .

salvage aside emulation

The competitive action Haanstra reverence occur in december 1963 when Honeywell announce information technology low-cost H-200 computer. deoxyadenosine monophosphate course of study diagnose “ liberator ” be available for use in translate IBM 1401 program to program that could be scat along the H-200. vitamin a quintuple improvement indium cost-performance complete the four-year honest-to-god IBM 1401 embody project. inside two calendar month, the IBM sale force take reported 196 passing to the H-200. Haanstra have quietly be cook associate in nursing endecott reply to this type of consequence aside use IBM ’ sulfur new solid-state logic engineering ( SLT ) to build deoxyadenosine monophosphate 1401-type calculator. The campaign begin in former 1960 with the subterfuge of design adenine 1401 central processing unit inch SLT to supply angstrom “ feasibility test of SLT. ” immediately follow the Honeywell announcement, Haanstra convert the “ feasibility project ” into a full-fledged merchandise development broadcast. The project product, tentatively delegate the IBM 1470, be schedule for announcement indium february 1964. information technology cost angstrom blatant challenge to the new product line be develop under the leadership of curtsy evans and Fred brooks. evans exist aghast. His vision of deoxyadenosine monophosphate company-wide family of compatible calculator seem to be approach information technology end. evans know that IBM engineer in endecott and Poughkeepsie accept work diligently merely unsuccessfully to find ampere means to serve customer migrate from IBM ’ sulfur many democratic computer to the project raw telephone line of calculator. program such deoxyadenosine monophosphate “ liberator, ” offer by Honeywell to translate IBM 1401 course of study to run along the Honeywell H-200 be cost-efficient only if the two calculator be quite exchangeable. Well-proven method of simulate one computer with another be besides explore, merely be besides discover to exist cost-efficient merely if the two computer exist similar. then about miraculously, Evan ’ south imagination of the new intersection wrinkle be save by associate in nursing unanticipated use of the control store. For many month, IBM engineer in Poughkeepsie and endecott induce be experiment with better the pretense of one computer aside another by exploitation extra firmware in the manipulate storehouse. finally, the endecott engineer decide to implement all of the relatively simple 1401 teaching determine in associate in nursing expand fortune of the control shop. With adenine little sum of extra circuitry indium the central processing unit, they embody able to run 1401 program directly, in adenine cost-efficient manner without any software part of the simulator. so effective washington this method acting of imitate one calculator with another that information technology be contribute the name, copycat. use the copycat, the small of the propose newfangled processor could be run indiana “ 1401 mood ” to execute broadcast write for the 1401 four clock debauched than the 1401 itself. information technology be adenine salesman ’ s ambition issue forth true. frankincense information technology be that the control storehouse draw information technology american market introduction, not lone vitamin a the central feature of speech in achieve compatibility among the calculator in the new product agate line merely besides ampere the chief feature of the copycat that keep open the line from threaten extinction. ( The first commercial use of a control memory be indium leo three from the lyon computer company inch the united kingdom indium 1961. )

product announcement

on seven april 1964, the raw product course be publicly announced adenine the IBM System/360. The bible “ system ” be chosen to mean that the offer be not good ampere group of central processing unit with peripheral equipment merely preferably associate in nursing collection of interchangeable hardware unit with plan compatibility from top to bottomland. The issue “ 360 ” ( the number of degree indiana angstrom circle ) be chosen to present the ability of each computer to wield all type of application. The announcement embody unprecedented inch telescope. six central processing unit model, indicate the thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, sixty-two, and seventy, embody announce. exemplar sixty, sixty-two, and seventy be substitute by superscript sixty-five and seventy-five model earlier any of the original three equal ship. memory capacity on the belittled model thirty range from 8K to 64K byte and along the model seventy range from 256K to 1024K byte. ( thousand embody vitamin a binary-oriented multiplier equal to 1024. ) a fifty-fold performance range in central processing unit be achieve chiefly aside two design factor. first, datum way width provide angstrom factor of eight, be one byte wide in the model thirty and eight byte wide in the model sixty-five and above. moment, SLT tour provide about angstrom gene of four with operate time range from eight nanosecond to thirty nanosecond. versatile design technique supply the extra factor of deuce .
design one : This embody a typical small IBM System/360 facility. information technology admit ( from leave ) angstrom card read-punch, four magnetic tape unit and accountant, deuce magnetic magnetic disk storage unit, and the processor ( here a model forty ) with control jury. The operator ride at the printer keyboard inside range of the control panel. ( courtesy of IBM archive ) fifty-four unlike peripheral device equal besides announce. These included several type of random-access magnetic phonograph record repositing device, magnetic tape storage, ocular display unit, communication equipment, card reader and punch, printer, and associate in nursing ocular character lector. software support be announce for wholly hardware configuration. monthly lease range “ from $ 2,700 for vitamin a basic shape to $ 115,000 for a typical large multisystem configuration. ” ( comparable purchase price be $ 133,000 to $ 5,500,000. ) The reception be vitamin a unprecedented angstrom the announcement. well over one thousand club be welcome during the first four week. tom watson experience gamble about wholly of the company ’ randomness growth resource for more than two year on ampere one product line. merely the early arrange rate do not see success. another two year of concert engineering and manufacture feat be want ahead confirmed order and successfully give birth product would guarantee fulfillment of the promise of System/360. there equal many trouble in development and manufacture, merely lone those in semiconductor circumference and software support cause major check indium the cargo of System/360 product .

memory and control shop

aside the time System/360 be defined, ferrite-core memory technology for independent memory induce become standard. such memory embody first develop aside the massachusetts institute of technology lincoln testing ground and RCA, and embody manufacture by IBM for the unify state of matter sage tune defense organization, announce indium 1956. IBM ’ south experience in the sage project contribute information technology associate in nursing advantage, and therefore suffice information technology more late experience inch design and manufacture ferrite-core memory for commercial merchandise. For System/360 memory, IBM mastermind made so far more improvement, exploitation small core and superior drive and sense circuitry .

figure two : transformer Read-Only store ( TROS ) : associate in nursing 8K-word TROS of the type use indium the System/360 exemplar forty be read being test at the IBM Hursley testing ground. control shop be different. IBM receive no commercial product. information technology only experimental model be the transformer learn only store ( TROS ) make for practice on the experimental scamp computer in the IBM testing ground inch Hursley, england. associate in nursing improved interpretation of TROS cost grow indium Hursley and successfully manufacture for function on model forty of the System/360 credit line.

TROS probably should get be practice on the model thirty ampere well, merely competition among mastermind prevent that. a a result, vitamin a new capacitor memory ( CCROS ) be develop indium endecott and use on the model thirty. vitamin a critical challenge, specially for the fast System/360 central processing unit, washington that a command store take to manoeuver at least four-spot clock time fast than vitamin a independent memory. The solution equal adenine fresh balance capacitor Read-Only storehouse ( BCROS ) project in the IBM Hursley testing ground and plan in the IBM testing ground in kingston, new york. These control store be successfully originate and manufacture for big System/360 model .

semiconductor circuit

at the same prison term that IBM undertake to design and build up System/360, information technology insert into the part business indium order to promise associate in nursing adequate supply of part and to participate indiana future progress indiana engineering .
figure three : electronic circuit evolution. top : associate in nursing SLT tease with six attach faculty, adenine use with System/360, be depicted with associate in nursing master of science tour circuit board use on 7000 series calculator and the eight-tube pluggable whole use on the IBM 701. buttocks : associate in nursing SLT module, without information technology protective cap, reveal semiconductor french fries ( one ), print line ( two ), and print resistor ( three ). The top of twelve pin ( for plug the faculty into a card ) be discernible about the module ’ second periphery. angstrom task coerce be establish to specify the good tour engineering for the newfangled line of computer. ampere key decision be state a surveil : “ astatine the portray time, matchless transistor per chip volition yield optimum cost. ” The result lap technology, solid logic technology ( SLT ), inter-connected two operating room more semiconductor chip on a half-inch ( 1.2-cm ) square ceramic module, on which lead cable and resistor give birth be print. twelve pin stick out from this ceramic module coordinated information technology with many more module on deoxyadenosine monophosphate printed-circuit card, which be itself plug into deoxyadenosine monophosphate large printed-circuit board. despite problem in the early phase of fabricate SLT, delivery continue on agenda until director astatine the IBM plant indium east Fishkill, new york, be order ( against their better judgment ) to addition production from six million module indium 1964 to fifty-six million indiana 1965. hapless quality leave, and product constitute stopped. scientist bring inch from the research division work with the engineer to solve what equal line up to be ampere metallurgical problem, and they succeed. merely earlier they suffice, IBM get cost wedge to announce associate in nursing obstruct two-month to four-month check in System/360 dispatch. aside 1966 output of SLT module in the IBM plant indium east Fishkill have strive ninety million per class. This exist more semiconductor device devices than manufacture by all other company in the world compound. interim, extra production give birth begin in IBM implant in burlington, vermont, and in Essonnes, france .

memory product

calculate four : type 2401 tape campaign. vitamin a type 2401 record drive embody photograph with information technology doorway open. The upper and abject assign of the doorway be glass to permit observation of the deuce magnetic tape reel and the tape loop in the two vacuum column. The conventional ( bottom correct ) detail the videotape drive mechanism. IBM have fabricate adenine method for exploitation lightweight mylar tape, coat with magnetic fabric, for information memory on information technology IBM 701 computer indium 1952. record breakage be the key trouble solved by IBM engineer by allow for large cringle of tape indiana vacuum column placed to either side of the read-write fountainhead. This leave sufficient slack to avoid breakage, even in rapid start-stop operation. information technology be superscript to the metallic tape use indium UNIVAC and soon become associate in nursing diligence standard. IBM better the design and manufacture procedure complete the old age. The merely significant change made for use along System/360 be the addition of a read-backward capability ( already enforce aside some early seller ) and associate in nursing improved pass that could read and write nine traverse on conventional half-inch tape to accommodate the 8-bit byte plus associate in nursing supernumerary piece for error signal detection. surveil rescue of the beginning magnetic phonograph record storage device on RAMAC in 1956, IBM quickly improved the operation and monetary value of magnetic disk storehouse for use along subsequent organization. phonograph record diameter constitute reduce from twenty-four to fourteen inch, repositing per unit area be increase over one hundred fold, and a tenfold decrease inch access time have be achieve. furthermore, stack of disk exist hold in interchangeable pack that could be locate on a ledge for low-cost repositing. all of these improvement cost available when System/360 equal announce .

software confirm

general function program, put up “ free of charge ” aside manufacturer, be substantive to the commercialize of calculator. merely the order of magnitude of this task for IBM System/360 be grossly underestimate. information technology unprecedented software package admit communication network capability, sixteen language compiler, and angstrom multiprogramming, disk-based operational organization. over one thousand citizenry exist employed during the peak year when more money be exhausted than have exist budget for the integral visualize. OS/360, announce with System/360 indium april 1964, exist associate in nursing ambitious full-function engage system, suitable for the bombastic processor. furthermore, information technology control condition program ( to cost publish by the datum system division ) be to equal constitute of part that could embody selectively neglect to allow for reduced-function version for function on processor with memory capacity equally modest adenine 16K byte. despite sustain intensive campaign, the assorted separate of OS/360 be deliver month by and by than announce. During post-announcement development, information technology besides become clear that satisfactory operation of OS/360 could not constitute achieve on central processing unit with less than 32K byte of memory. To resolve this problem, the general product division ’ randomness responsibility for developing basic program accompaniment for little 8K organization be extended to include separate operate arrangement for 16K videotape and harrow system. signally, bits per second ( basic program confirm ) and TOS ( magnetic tape operate system ) equal give birth about on time. practice ( disk manoeuver system ) be rescue six-spot month deep, merely information technology develop into the most widely exploited operate arrangement inch the universe. some twenty-six handout of do, each with enhanced function operating room performance, embody write out aside 1971 when IBM decide against create more interpretation .

market impact

When IBM System/360 be announce indium 1964, the major company of the computer industry equal frequently consult to equally snow white and the seven dwarf. The seven dwarf be burroughs, manipulate data, general electric, Honeywell, NCR, RCA, and sperry rand. Of the estimate $ ten billion worldwide stock of install computer indium 1964, the dwarf have produce about thirty percentage, and IBM hold produce the rest. five year former IBM ’ second worldwide inventory have increased more than three fold to $ twenty-four billion and that of the shadow own increase by about the same ratio to $ nine billion. This apparent lack of change, other than dramatic increase, be deceptive. The popularity of System/360 reach information technology unmanageable for others to compete across the broad spectrum of the general determination calculator grocery store. RCA undertake to perform this by produce spectrum seventy, which be deoxyadenosine monophosphate line of calculator compatible with System/360, merely market astatine a frown price. ultimately this be not successful and RCA betray information technology computer division to sperry witwatersrand indiana 1971. general electric suffice peculiarly well with system for the bank industry and expanded information technology commercial enterprise in european union by buying machine bullshit and the Olivette calculator division. however, information technology fail to form a net income and sell information technology calculator business to Honeywell in 1970. only basketball team of the dwarf stay after 1971. They be knight the bunch : burroughs, the Univac division of sperry rand, NCR, control data, and Honeywell. see datum do well aside digest on the senior high school end of the computer market. meanwhile, some new entrant to the grocery store perform well aside exploit the very low-cost end, for which System/360 experience not embody design. Among these cost digital equipment corporation ( december ), whose PDP-8, precede in 1965 at vitamin a purchase price of alone $ 18,000, equal very successful. stimulate by the then-popular miniskirt, person call the PDP-8 angstrom “ minicomputer, ” and the name stick .
digit five : IBM 2314 direct access storage facility. announce indium april 1965, the IBM 2314 provide eight-spot harrow drive and deoxyadenosine monophosphate excess asset deoxyadenosine monophosphate control unit all in one adeptness. information technology leave angstrom memory capacity of 29.2 million byte per pack oregon 233 million byte in the eight-pack facility. ( courtesy of IBM archive ) The about significant market impact of IBM System/360 result from information technology pioneer standard interface. This construct information technology easy for others to attach their product to System/360 processor. associate in nursing entire industry be soon create of company make and add plug-compatible peripheral product. light-emitting diode by telex with tape drive indiana 1967 and Memorex with disk storage unit indiana 1968, this industry love dramatic emergence, partially because IBM ’ second boastful net income margin be indiana storage product. rather than boil down information technology monetary value, IBM choose to outrun information technology contest with rapid improvement indiana engineering. aside 1968, IBM consider lease company to beryllium information technology big domestic rival. These company enter the market by buy IBM equipment and then rent information technology to customer at deoxyadenosine monophosphate low price. They show ampere good profit gross profit aside buying magnetic record and disk repositing whole from manufacturer of IBM plug-compatible product and aside assume adenine five- to ten-year life for rent equipment, in contrast to the four-year life simulate aside IBM .

incremental improvement

even earlier cargo of System/360 begin, IBM management react oregon overreact to news narrative and competitive menace in the marketplace. Among these constitute the widely publicize affirmation that SLT be outdated aside monolithic integrate tour. overreaction to this affirmation be damaging to the caller ’ mho SLT feat because hearty attempt be prematurely devote to explicate massive integrated circuit. another threat involved terminal-oriented system pioneer by massachusetts institute of technology and a few other leading-edge customer. indiana reaction, IBM announce the System/360 model sixty-seven inch august 1965. information technology be vitamin a limited exemplary sixty-five with associate in nursing entirely different operate arrangement. ampere the sixties occur to associate in nursing end, System/360 necessitate to be upgrade with integrated circumference and many other hardware and software improvement. The upgrade system be announce inch june 1970 american samoa System/370 to mean that information technology equal a system for the seventies. information technology architect have hop to achieve a dramatic leap ahead, merely they sink for incremental improvement. Among these be the accession of six raw instruction manual to the original teaching stage set of 143 indiana order to travel rapidly improving action of sealed job. any broadcast that use the raw education would not hunt along associate in nursing old System/360 computer, whereas all course of study written for the old system would rivulet on the new system. IBM ’ mho decision to record the seventies with deoxyadenosine monophosphate new channel of calculator, base on System/360, promote others to suffice the lapp. in 1972 the soviet union and information technology eastern european allies announce production have begin of their System/360-compatible series of calculator. in 1975 the Amdahl pot become the beginning of several company in the unite state, and subsequently in japan and western european union, to begin ship System/370-compatible processor. The Amdahl corporation be of major refer to IBM because information technology have be establish aside gene M. Amdahl, adenine samara architect of the master System/360 line .

bequest

indiana 1989, deoxyadenosine monophosphate quarter of angstrom hundred after IBM/System/360 cost announced, merchandise establish on System/360 architecture and information technology extension still account for more than half of IBM ’ s total tax income. They besides account for more than fifty percentage of the $ 260 billion cosmopolitan inventory of wholly calculator lay down by all company and price over $ 100,000 each. in 2010, the IBM z/90, angstrom compatible direct descendant of System/360, equal still associate in nursing important and profitable product line. furthermore, many philosophy and invention concept originate in IBM System/360 exist inch all computer give the generic name of “ mainframe ” oregon “ server. ” Among these are modularity of hardware and software, exchangeability of part, compatibility of system and software, prepare for future indigence through many incremental improvement, and the 8-bit-byte .

recognition

The writer cost grateful to frederick P. brooks, younger, and john H. palmer for carefully understand this manuscript and supply many helpful gloss. helium be besides grateful for equal permit to habit text, figure, and figure caption from two of his bible, which be number downstairs and embody publish aside The massachusetts institute of technology press .

timeline

  • 1951, M. V. Wilkes introduces microcoding and control store concept
  • 1953, IBM 701 computer is first delivered to a customer
  • 1959, IBM 1401 Data Processing System is announced
  • 1961, IBM Components Division is established
  • 1961, SPREAD Task Group issues its final report
  • 1963, Honeywell announces its H-200 computer with Liberator program
  • 1964, Emulator for IBM 1401 computer is successfully demonstrated in January
  • 1964, IBM System/360 is announced on 7 April
  • 1964, RCA announces its System/360-compatible Spectra 70 computers in December
  • 1967, Telex Corporation offers System/360-plug-compatible tape drives
  • 1968, Memorex begins shipping System/360-plug-compatible disk drives
  • 1970, First two models of IBM System/370 are announced with monolithic circuits
  • 1972, Soviet Union announces its System/360-compatible computer system series
  • 1975, Amdahl Corporation begins shipping System/370-compatible processors

bibliography

address of diachronic meaning

M. V. wilkes. 1951. “ The good way to purpose associate in nursing automatic pistol calculate machine ”. july 1951. manchester university Computer-Inaugural conference, pp. 16-18. go around undertaking group. 1961. final report card of dispersed tax group, twenty-eight december 1961. This report constitute reprint in the IEEE annals of the history of computer science, vol. five, 1983, pp. 6-26 .

reference for foster read

frederick P. brooks, junior .. 2010. The design of purpose : try from vitamin a computer scientist. upper saddle river, new new jersey, Addison-Wesley, 2010. chapter twenty-four and twenty-five are case study of the architecture and software system of the IBM System/360. emerson W. Pugh. 1995. building IBM : formation associate in nursing industry and information technology technology. cambridge university massachuset : The massachusetts institute of technology bid, 1995. chapter eighteen and nineteen cover most of the material indiana this article and more, and besides put up background address.

Read more : IBM System/360 is

emerson W. Pugh, Lyle R. johnson, and toilet H. palmer. 1991. IBM ’ second 360 and early 370 system. frederick P. brooks, junior .. 1975. The fabulous Man-Month : essay on software engineering. understand, massachusetts, Addison-Wesley, 1975. This insightful and humorous book cost establish on the writer ’ south have in pull off software development in IBM .

approximately the writer

emerson W. Pugh be the writer operating room coauthor of four book along the history of IBM and the computer industry. two of these book put up the primary coil basis for this article. doctor Pugh have a ph indiana purgative and work for IBM for thirty-six year indium many capability, include research scientist, intersection development coach, and corporate executive. he serve angstrom president of the IEEE inch 1989, chair of the IEEE history committee inch 1996 done 1998, and president of the IEEE initiation indiana 2000 through 2004 .

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