[IP] more on Bob Evans, IBM mainframe pioneer, dies at 77
And here I thought the 70x and 70x0 were just for SNOBOL :-). Yes they
were very very multipurpose and in many ways the SOS (SHARE Operating
System was way ahead of latter systems (minus time sharing but.. ) (May
still be ahead ).
Yes I knew about the T and did you know that the technology for the T
seemed to be Stretch technology
Begin forwarded message:
From: Ted Dolotta <Ted@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 6, 2004 11:33:53 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [IP] Bob Evans, IBM mainframe pioneer, dies at 77
Reply-To: Ted@xxxxxxxxxxx
*** Probably NOT for IP ***
"Prior to the S/360, each computer was a unique system. They were made
to an individual customer's order, and there was no continuity from
design to design," Colette Martin, the director of zSeries products for
IBM, told CNET News.com before the mainframe's 40th anniversary in
April. "Prior to the S/360, they were single-application systems."
That's not really true; as we both know, the 70X and 70X0
were very much multi-purpose systems ...
ted
P.S. Did you know that the IBM 7090 -- because it was a
transistorized version of the IBM 709 -- was originally
called the "709T", which eventually mutated into "7090"?
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