Re: OT: Digital? Cloud? Modern And Cost-Effective? Surprise! It's The Mainframe - Forbes

2015-03-28 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Robert Wessel robertwess...@yahoo.com writes: IBM shipped about 20 360/91s, then a couple of 360/95s with a redesigned memory subsystem, then the 360/195 which re-implemented the same machine on a faster, denser logic process, then that modified was to include the basic S/370 extensions (no

Re: OT: Digital? Cloud? Modern And Cost-Effective? Surprise! It's The Mainframe - Forbes

2015-03-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 551602fc.10...@yahoo.com, on 03/27/2015 at 09:25 PM, Thomas Kern 0041d919e708-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu said: Not only did GISS have a 360/95 (running a special operating system called SSS/360) but also an Amdahl 470V6 running VM/370 R3 with 3 VMs of SSS/360. Don't forget that

Re: OT: Digital? Cloud? Modern And Cost-Effective? Surprise! It's The Mainframe - Forbes

2015-03-28 Thread David L. Craig
On 15Mar27:1741-0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In 20150327175138.GA3765@dlc-dt, on 03/27/2015 at 01:51 PM, David L. Craig dlc@gmail.com said: The plaque said it's from the Goddard Space Flight Center, which was in building 3/14 and under the Flight Dynamics Directorate, My