7 Apr
2004
7 Apr
'04
4:53 a.m.
There's also an article in today's Durham (NC) Herald-Sun about the IBM/360 and
the role of Fred Brooks, Jr., who is also credited with founding the Computer Science
dept. at UNC-Chapel Hill.
The article is at: http://www.heraldsun.com/business/21-467479.html
Enjoy!
Alex K.
The Calculator Museum Web Page
http://www.calcmuseum.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Krten <root(a)parse.com>
Sent: Apr 7, 2004 10:07 AM
To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: IBM 360 turns 40 today
Read an article in the local paper, Ottawa Citizen, about the
IBM 360 turning 40 today. Interesting read, they claim that
in today's dollars, the total effort cost something like
$30 BILLION :-)
The picture in the paper was interesting, because the front panel
is the exact same one that I have in the basement...
Cheers,
-RK
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7:21 a.m.
> Read an article in the local paper, Ottawa
Citizen, about the IBM
> 360 turning 40 today. Interesting read, they claim that in
> today's dollars, the total effort cost something like $30 BILLION
> :-)
That reminds me of a interesting quote from Thomas Watson:
Last week Control Data ... announced the 6600 system. I understand
that in the laboratory developing the system there are only 34
people including the janitor. Of these, 14 are engineers and 4 are
programmers ... Contrasting this modest effort with our vast
development activities, I fail to understand why we have lost our
industry leadership position by letting someone else offer the
world's most powerful computer.
paul
9:47 a.m.
At 03:21 PM 4/7/2004, you wrote:
That reminds me of a interesting quote from Thomas
Watson:
It all turned around with TJ junior who is the one that made IBM fly in the
computer world
Last week Control Data ... announced the 6600
system. I understand
that in the laboratory developing the system there are only 34
people including the janitor. Of these, 14 are engineers and 4 are
programmers ... Contrasting this modest effort with our vast
development activities, I fail to understand why we have lost our
industry leadership position by letting someone else offer the
world's most powerful computer.
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Gene Ehrich
gehrich(a)tampabay.rr.com
6 p.m.
That reminds me of a interesting quote from Thomas
Watson:
Last week Control Data ... announced the 6600 system. I understand
that in the laboratory developing the system there are only 34
people including the janitor. Of these, 14 are engineers and 4 are
programmers ... Contrasting this modest effort with our vast
development activities, I fail to understand why we have lost our
industry leadership position by letting someone else offer the
world's most powerful computer.
Russets and Citrus fruits
The 6600 was a single design intended to do one thing excellently (run
Fortran programs)
One model, one assembler, one Fortran compiler, and a minimal operating
system.
(OK, later came the variants. The other operating systems and compilers came
from the customers)
The S/360 ... well you can fill the rest in yourself (but I'll mention that
there were at least two compilers each for at least 4 programming languages)
Andy
6:05 p.m.
Andy Holt declared on Thursday 08 April 2004 01:00 am:
The 6600 was a single design intended to do one thing
excellently (run
Fortran programs)
One model, one assembler, one Fortran compiler, and a minimal
operating system.
(OK, later came the variants. The other operating systems and
compilers came from the customers)
Indeed. I work with some people that wrote Purdue's CDC 6600 OS. :) If
I'm lucky, I might be able to find a copy on 9 track somewhere. (It's
something in my to-do queue.)
Pat
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