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 Z is a family name used by IBM for all of its z/Architecture mainframe computers. In July 2017, with another generation of products, the official family...
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during the mid-1990s, when CMOS mainframe designs replaced the older bipolar technology. IBM claimed that its newer mainframes reduced data center energy costs...
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Linux on IBM Z, Linux on zSystems, or zLinux is the collective term for the Linux operating system compiled to run on IBM mainframes, especially IBM Z, zSystems...
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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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IBM System z9 is a line of IBM mainframe computers. The first models were available on September 16, 2005. The System z9 also marks the end of the previously...
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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 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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Z/Architecture (redirect from IBM mainframe expanded storage)
(ESAME), is IBM's 64-bit complex instruction set computer (CISC) instruction set architecture, implemented by its mainframe computers. IBM introduced its...
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In the context of IBM mainframe computers in the IBM System/360 line and its successors, a data set (IBM preferred) or dataset is a computer file having...
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Watson's lieutenants, John R. Opel, who managed the launch of IBM's System/360 mainframe family in 1964. The slowest System/360 model announced in 1964...
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capacity is stated as 112 MB. The 2302 attaches to IBM mainframes via a IBM 2841 Storage Control Unit. The IBM 2305 fixed head storage (a fixed-head disk drive...
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platforms, including the IBM RS/6000 series and later Power and PowerPC-based systems, IBM System i, System/370 mainframes, PS/2 personal computers,...
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and as a terminal to a mainframe. IBM later released the 3270 AT (IBM System Unit 5273), which is a similar design based on the IBM PC AT. They also released...
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stores, subsidiaries, etc., and to be connected to the central host mainframe, using IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA). Although its successor's role...
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Midrange computer (redirect from IBM minicomputer)
has media related to Midrange computers. IBM mainframe Superminicomputer Minicomputer Microcomputer List of IBM products Estabrooks, Maurice (1995). Electronic...
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The z15 is a microprocessor made by IBM for their z15 mainframe computers, announced on September 12, 2019. The processor unit chip (PU chip) has 12 cores...
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The IBM 700/7000 series is a series of large-scale (mainframe) computer systems that were made by IBM through the 1950s and early 1960s. The series includes...
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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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by IBM for the IBM z16 series mainframe computers. The processor was announced at the Hot Chips 2021 conference on 23 August 2021. Telum is IBM's first...
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MVS (category IBM mainframe operating systems)
and IBM Z IBM mainframe computers. IBM developed MVS, along with OS/VS1 and SVS, as a successor to OS/360. It is unrelated to IBM's other mainframe operating...
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in 1971 and normally used to communicate with IBM mainframes. The 3270 was the successor to the IBM 2260 display terminal. Due to the text color on the...
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Systems Network Architecture (redirect from IBM SNA)
Telecommunications Access Method (VTAM), the mainframe software package for SNA communications. SNA was made public as part of IBM's "Advanced Function for Communications"...
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VM (operating system) (category IBM mainframe operating systems)
VM (often: VM/CMS) is a family of IBM virtual machine operating systems used on IBM mainframes System/370, System/390, zSeries, System z and compatible...
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In computing, a Parallel Sysplex is a cluster of IBM mainframes acting together as a single system image with z/OS. Used for disaster recovery, Parallel...
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VSE (operating system) (category IBM mainframe operating systems)
VSEn (Virtual Storage Extended) is an operating system for IBM mainframe computers, the latest one in the DOS/360 lineage, which originated in 1965. It...
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withdrawn in 2005. List of IBM products IBM mainframe History of IBM Emerson W. Pugh; Lyle R. Johnson; John H. Palmer (1991). IBM's 360 and early 370 systems...
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The IBM System/370 (S/370) is a range of computers, from entry-level to mainframes, announced as the successors to the System/360 family on June 30, 1970...
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The IBM 3090 family is a family of mainframe computers that was a high-end successor to the IBM System/370 series, and thus indirectly the successor to...
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