In <[email protected]>, on
04/20/2015
at 03:11 PM, Tom Marchant
<[email protected]> said:
>It is easy for us to fault the designers of System/360 and OS/360
>for not considering the future requirement for more than 16 MB.
Especially if you were familiar with other vendors, who were ahead of
IBM is several ways. I was certainly appalled by the S/360
limitations, except that I failed to identify the limited number of
channels as a choke point.
>In 1964, that seemed like plenty of addressable memory.
Not to me.
>"Storage capacities of more than the commonly available 32,000
>words would be required."
Other vendors were using addresses larger than 15 bits.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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