We told you earlier in the year about the trio of Brits who bought an IBM System/360 mainframe computer from the mid 1960s off of a seller in Germany, only to find in the long-abandoned machine ...

Fourth is an IBM System/360 System Model 20 Punched-Card Utility Programs manual (Form C26-3601-1), produced in 1964. Fifth is an IBM Operating System/360 Assembler Language manual (Form C28-6514-3).

Although considerable enhancements have been made, much of the 360 architecture is still carried over in current-day IBM mainframes. Since its inception, trillions of dollars worth of information ...

Abstract: The GPSS/360 program offers adaptability ... editor • Graphic capabilities GPSS/36O also offers greater versatility by operating under OS/360 and DOS/36O.

I must have used more operating systems than almost anyone else. I cut my teeth on IBM 360/OS in the 1970s. Since then, I've ...

Starting with the data processing environment of twenty-five years ago, this paper describes the forces that led to the development of the OS/360 system design and then traces the evolution which led ...

IBM found themselves in a similar predicament in the 1970s after working on a type of mainframe computer made to be a phone switch. Eventually the phone switch was abandoned in favor of a general ...

The rest is history. In 1964, IBM's System 360 introduced the idea of different hardware models being compatible with one another's software. A decade later, CP/M introduced an OS that could run on ...

Vertically integrated computer manufacturers such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Oracle offer their own versions of the Unix operating system preinstalled on server ... including Xbox 360 and Windows ...

Which is why IBM has a chance to make a little hardware money among ... It requires custom I/O protocols to minimize latency, support virtualization for thousands of operating system instances, and ...