IBM's 360 and early 370 systems

✍ Scribed by Emerson W Pugh; Lyle R Johnson; John H Palmer

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 833
• Series: History of computing
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

No new product offering has had greater impact on the computer industry than the IBM System/360. IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems describes the creation of this remarkable system and the developments it spawned, including its successor, System/370. The authors tell how System/360's widely-copied architecture came into being and how IBM failed in an effort to replace it ten years later with a bold development effort called FS, the Future System. --from publisher description Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Embracing electronics --
Circuit technology gamble - Unified product line --
Memories and control stores --
Strength in storage products --
Software support --
High-end computers --
Monolithics and new systems --
New challenges in storage --
Toward terminal-oriented systems --
In retrospect.

✦ Subjects

IBM S/360