IBM System/360 (S/360) is a family of mainframe computer systems announced by IBM on April 7, 1964, and delivered between 1965 and 1978. System/360 was...
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The IBM System/360 architecture is the model independent architecture for the entire S/360 line of mainframe computers, including but not limited to the...
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The IBM System/360 Model 67 (S/360-67) was an important IBM mainframe model in the late 1960s. Unlike the rest of the S/360 series, it included features...
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IBM System/360 Model 91 was announced in 1964 as a competitor to the CDC 6600. Functionally, the Model 91 ran like any other large-scale System/360,...
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The IBM System/370 (S/370) is a range of IBM mainframe computers announced as the successors to the System/360 family on June 30, 1970. The series mostly...
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The IBM Time Sharing System TSS/360 is a discontinued early time-sharing operating system designed exclusively for a special model of the System/360 line...
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The IBM System/360 Model 30 was a low-end member of the IBM System/360 family. It was announced on April 7, 1964, shipped in 1965, and withdrawn on October...
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The IBM System/360 Model 50 is a member of the IBM System/360 family of computers. The Model 50 was announced in April 1964 with the other initial models...
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OS/360, officially known as IBM System/360 Operating System, is a discontinued batch processing operating system developed by IBM for their then-new System/360...
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Operating System/360, also DOS/360, or simply DOS, is the discontinued first member of a sequence of operating systems for IBM System/360, System/370 and...
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The IBM System/360 Model 20 is the smallest member of the IBM System/360 family announced in November 1964. The Model 20 supports only a subset of the...
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The IBM System/360 Model 65 is a member of the IBM System/360 family of computers. It was announced April 1965, and replaced two models, the Model 60...
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The IBM System/360 Model 25 is a low-end member of the IBM System/360 family. It was announced on January 3, 1968, 3 years before the IBM System/360 Model...
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market with the 7000 series and the later System/360, followed by the System/370. Current mainframe computers in IBM's line of business computers are developments...
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The IBM System/360 Model 85 is a high-end member of the System/360 family of computers, with many advanced features, and was announced in January 1968...
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The IBM System/360 Model 40 was a mid-range member of the IBM System/360 family. It was announced on April 7, 1964, shipped in 1965, and withdrawn on October...
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The IBM System/360 Model 195 is a discontinued IBM computer introduced on August 20, 1969. The Model 195 was a reimplementation of the IBM System/360 Model...
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The IBM Basic assembly language and successors is a series of assembly languages and assemblers made for the IBM System/360 mainframe system and its successors...
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version on the IBM System/360 Model 65 was completed in 1967 as ICS/DL/I and officially installed in August 1968. IBM rebranded it IMS/360 in 1969, and...
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Operating System/360 (BOS/360) was an early IBM System/360 operating system. BOS was one of four System/360 Operating System versions developed by the IBM General...
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The IBM System/390 is a discontinued mainframe product family implementing ESA/390, the fifth generation of the System/360 instruction set architecture...
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The IBM System/360 Model 44 is a specialized member of the IBM System/360 family, with a variant of the System/360 computer architecture, designed for...
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The IBM 2250 Graphics Display Unit was a vector graphics display system by IBM for the System/360; the Model IV attached to the IBM 1130. The IBM 2250...
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than half cost of an IBM System/360 Model 20; the smallest member of the IBM System/360 family. Many of the original System/3 model 10 units were shipped...
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Bootloader (section IBM System/360 and successors)
next-stage bootloader (such as BOOTMGR and GRUB2) from EFI System Partition directly. In IBM System/360 and successors, the LOAD operator control initiates a...
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IBM Enterprise Systems Architecture is an instruction set architecture introduced by IBM as Enterprise Systems Architecture/370 (ESA/370) in 1988. It is...
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The history of IBM mainframe operating systems is significant within the history of mainframe operating systems, because of IBM's long-standing position...
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operations. The IBM Z family maintains full backward compatibility. In effect, current systems are the direct, lineal descendants of the System/360, announced...
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used. By the time IBM announced the System/360 mainframes, the concept of a disk operating system was well established. Although IBM did offer Basic Programming...
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floating point (now called HFP by IBM) is a format for encoding floating-point numbers first introduced on the IBM System/360 computers, and supported on subsequent...
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