IBM 360 turns 40 today

From: Patrick Finnegan <pat_at_computer-refuge.org>
Date: Thu Apr 8 01:05:17 2004

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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