The 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...
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IBM Power Systems is a family of server computers from IBM that are based on its Power processors. It was created in 2008 as a merger of the System p...
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official family was changed to IBM Z from IBM z Systems; the IBM Z family will soon include the newest model, the IBM z17, as well as the z16, z15, z14...
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named IBM Power Systems. The name "AS/400" is sometimes used informally to refer to the IBM i operating system running on modern Power Systems hardware...
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1970s. Enterprise System/9000 (ES/9000), as in 360 for 1960s, 370 for 1970s. Enterprise Systems Architecture/390 (ESA/390) was IBM's last 31-bit-address/32-bit-data...
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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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and its unification with the mid-range System i platform. The resulting product line was called IBM Power Systems. Whereas the previous RS/6000 line used...
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ˈɛks/ ay-eye-EKS) is a series of proprietary Unix operating systems developed and sold by IBM since 1986. The name stands for "Advanced Interactive eXecutive"...
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eight years by IBM's laboratory in Rochester, Minnesota. The president of IBM's General Systems Division (GSD) said at the time: "The System/38 is the largest...
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The IBM System/3 was an IBM midrange computer introduced in 1969, and marketed until 1985. It was produced by IBM Rochester in Minnesota as a low-end...
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IBM mainframes are large computer systems produced by IBM since 1952. During the 1960s and 1970s, IBM dominated the computer market with the 7000 series...
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IBM Research is the research and development division for IBM, an American multinational information technology company. IBM Research is headquartered...
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IBM i (the i standing for integrated) is an operating system developed by IBM for IBM Power Systems. It was originally released in 1988 as OS/400, as...
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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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System/38 and succeeding IBM AS/400 range. The AS/400 series and IBM Power Systems running IBM i can run System/36 code in the System/36 Environment, although...
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had stopped making hard disk drives unique to its systems and was offering all its HDDs as an OEM. IBM uses many terms to describe its various magnetic...
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many later relational systems. System R's first customer was Pratt & Whitney in 1977. IBM Db2 IBM SQL/DS Ingres (database) SQL System/38 "A History and Evaluation...
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Systems Network Architecture (SNA) is IBM's proprietary networking architecture, created in 1974. It is a complete protocol stack for interconnecting...
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Application Business Systems, dedicated to mid-range computers; IBM Enterprise Systems, dedicated to mainframes; Pennant Systems, dedicated to mid-range...
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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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The 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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a family of IBM virtual machine operating systems used on IBM mainframes System/370, System/390, zSeries, System z and compatible systems, including the...
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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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The IBM System/32 (IBM 5320) introduced in January 1975 was a midrange computer with built-in display screen, disk drives, printer, and database report...
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IBM Watson is a computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language. It was developed as a part of IBM's DeepQA project by a research...
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System x is a line of x86 servers produced by IBM, and later by Lenovo, as a sub-brand of IBM's System brand, alongside IBM Power Systems, IBM System...
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computer in the 1980s, IBM and other vendors have created PC-based IBM mainframe-compatible systems which are compatible with the larger IBM mainframe computers...
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was to implement SAA in IBM operating systems including MVS, OS/400 and OS/2. AIX—IBM's version of the UNIX operating system—was not a target of SAA,...
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by the IBM Federal Systems Division and produced by the Electronics Systems Center in Owego, NY. It descends from the approach used in the System/360 mainframe...
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The IBM System/34 was an IBM midrange computer introduced in 1977. It was withdrawn from marketing in February 1985. It was a multi-user, multi-tasking...
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