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  1. Heute schon mal KBytes gezählt? Vor 60 Jahren war das noch notwendig, als IBM sein System/360 vorstellte. 8 KByte RAM, 8 MByte Speicher, also stolze 8 Millionen Zeichen. Für manche Firma damals der Einstieg in die Computerei.

    #ibm #system360 #mainframe #retrocomputing #retrocomputer #retro #server

    notebookcheck.com/8-bis-524-KB

  2. IBM CONTROL PROGRAM OF OPERATING SYSTEM/360 (Full)

    Full film IBM B&W film introducing OS/360. The title is IBM CONTROL PROGRAM OF OPERATING SYSTEM/360. IBM's System/360 mainframe turns 50 (60 in 2024) soon and since YouTube now allows much larger uploads here is the complete introduction to OS/360. Preserved thanks to Michael Stack:

    youtube.com/watch?v=378S5Owi-B

    #IBM #System360 #zOS #Mainframe #ComputerHistory #1960s

  3. Hello #Fediverse, here's your "daily" OS-tan art!

    This one is of OS/360-tan!

    She is still fiercely patriotic from her leadership of the old IBM guild, and is prone to spouting company rhetoric. Is mildly schizophrenic, notoriously clumsy (prone to fragmentation), and not good at multitasking, but is still successful at her work, science and government work being her specialty. She is known to be very boisterous and hot-headed, yet is more easy-going than most of her sisters, and when she thinks clearly, she is very charismatic and leader-like.

    She is territorial and possessive, even if she may be friendly with others. She also despises competing OS-tans that are able to operate on System/360 mainframes, like MTS.

    Art by BellaCielo
    #OStan #Gijinkas #Personification #OStans #Gijinka #Anime #OS娘 #OSたん #IBM #OS360 #System360

  4. @ernie @vwestlife I guess was not an option to avoud confusion with devices and was propably some codename that never went further.

    OFC may be unrelated to entirely.

    It shurely is unrelated to which is designed to only run in VMs!

  5. @ernie @vwestlife I guess #OS3 was not an option to avoud confusion with #System360 devices and #OS4 was propably some codename that never went further.

    OFC #OS5 may be unrelated to #OS2 entirely.

    It shurely is unrelated to #OSv which is designed to only run in VMs!

  6. @ernie @vwestlife I guess #OS3 was not an option to avoud confusion with #System360 devices and #OS4 was propably some codename that never went further.

    OFC #OS5 may be unrelated to #OS2 entirely.

    It shurely is unrelated to #OSv which is designed to only run in VMs!

  7. RIP, Fred Brooks, author of "The Mythical Man-month", managing developer of IBM's System/360 and much more.

    "Steven M. Bellovin @SteveBellovin

    Sad news from @unccs — Fred P. Brooks, the founder and long-time chair of the department (and a major influence on my professional outlook) passed away a few hours ago."

    twitter.com/stevebellovin/stat

    [ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Bro ]

    #ComputerHistory #FredBrooks #Computers #IBM #System360

  8. Amazing work by Ken Shirriff.

    "I'm developing a microcode-level simulator for the IBM System/360 Model 50 [...]; this blog post provides background to understand the Model 50 and the simulator."

    righto.com/2022/01/ibm360model

    #Computers #ComputerHistory #IBM #System360 #Technology #Simulations #Microcode #ComputerArchitecture