• 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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  • Systems Application Architecture (SAA), introduced in 1987, is a set of standards for computer software developed by IBM. The SAA initiative was started...
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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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  • unit type 6.2 ) APPC was developed in 1982 as a component of IBM's Systems Network Architecture (SNA). Several APIs were developed for programming languages...
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    and to be connected to the central host mainframe, using IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA). Although its successor's role in distributed data processing...
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    to IBM Z from IBM z Systems; the IBM Z family includes the newest model, the IBM z17, as well as the z16, z15, z14, and z13 (released under the IBM z Systems/IBM...
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  • Data-Link Switching (category Systems Network Architecture)
    unroutable, non-IP based protocols such as IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA) and NBF over an IP network. DLSw was initially documented in IETF RFC...
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  • IBM POWER is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by IBM. The name is an acronym for Performance Optimization...
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  • the z900, in late 2000. Subsequent z/Architecture systems include the IBM z800, z990, z890, System z9, System z10, zEnterprise 196, zEnterprise 114,...
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  • Unit 6.2 is an IBM-originated communications protocol specification dating from 1974, and is part of IBM's Systems Network Architecture (SNA). A device-independent...
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    the IBM RS/6000 series and later Power and PowerPC-based systems, IBM System i, System/370 mainframes, PS/2 personal computers, and the Apple Network Server...
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  • Personal System/2 laptop IBM System/3 IBM System/4 Pi IBM Office System/6 IBM System/7 IBM System/23 IBM System/32 IBM System/34 IBM System/36 IBM System/38...
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  • IBM Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking (APPN) is an extension to the Systems Network Architecture (SNA) "that allows large and small computers to communicate...
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  • international computer networking system deployed in the mid-1970s and still in current, though greatly diminished, use. It was developed inside IBM and provided...
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    IBM 37xx (or 37x5) is a family of IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA) programmable communications controllers used mainly in mainframe environments...
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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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    commercial computers from IBM that were based on a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture. The RT PC uses IBM's proprietary ROMP microprocessor...
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    IBM favored the term "midrange computer" for their comparable, but more business-oriented systems. System/3 (1969) was the first IBM midrange system....
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  • simultaneously, multiprocessor refers to a hardware architecture that allows multiprocessing. Multiprocessor systems are classified according to how processor memory...
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  • IBM MQ. The products that are included in the MQ family are IBM MQ, IBM MQ Advanced, IBM MQ Appliance, IBM MQ for z/OS, and IBM MQ on IBM Cloud. IBM MQ...
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  • the IBM PC, Amiga 2000 and Apple IIe have an open architecture supporting plug-in cards, whereas the Apple IIc computer has a closed architecture. Open...
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  • 2010, IBM completed the purchase of Sterling Commerce from AT&T. Traditionally, Sterling Connect:Direct used IBM's Systems Network Architecture (SNA)...
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  • less visible as well. In 1974, IBM announced Systems Network Architecture (SNA), a networking protocol for computing systems. SNA is a uniform set of rules...
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    supercomputer architecture have taken dramatic turns since the earliest systems were introduced in the 1960s. Early supercomputer architectures pioneered...
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    Neural Network Processing Assists (NNPA) instruction performs a variety of tensor instructions useful for neural networks. z/Architecture IBM Z Mainframe...
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  • Hughes Network Systems, LLC is an American telecommunications company that specializes in providing satellite-based communication services for consumer...
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  • File System (CIFS). In 1986, IBM announced client and server support for Distributed Data Management Architecture (DDM) for the System/36, System/38, and...
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    coprocessor board for the IBM 6152 Academic System introduced in 1988, and it later appeared in some models of the RT PC. The architectural work on the ROMP began...
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    IBM's Systems Network Architecture (SNA). It was introduced in 1974 and was used widely during the late 1970s to 1990s, for attachment to IBM System/360...
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  • The Open Systems Adapter (OSA) is a network controller for IBM z/Architecture, ES/9000 and S/390 mainframes. The OSA can be installed in a mainframe I/O...
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