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Re: 7 April 1964: Happy Birthday, IBM System/360
From: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:30:17 -0800
The IBM System/360 (S/360) is a mainframe computer system family announced by International Business Machines on April 7, 1964. It was the first family of computers making a clear distinction between architecture and implementation.
http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2006/04/7-april-1964-happy-birthday-ibm.html
A bit of trivia. A mathematical theorem (I think it was the four-colour thingie) was proven using a computer. A few years ago the (historical) reports about this all just said "supercomputer," and so someone got interested in what the machine actually was, and found that it was (if dim memory serves) a 360. (It *might* have been the followon 370, but I don't think so: if anything it might have been a modded 360+.) He then went and looked up the specs, and found that the processing power involved fell somewhere in the range between a 486/25 and 486/33. ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rslade () vcn bc ca slade () victoria tc ca rslade () sun soci niu edu Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; Art is everything else. - Donald Ervin Kunth http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: 7 April 1964: Happy Birthday, IBM System/360 Jeff Kell (Apr 07)
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