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The goal of the contest was to provide students with the opportunity to experience working with mainframes. [3] The contest was created in part to increase the number of mainframe skilled individuals in the computing workforce.
Multiple Virtual Storage, more commonly called MVS, is the most commonly used operating system on the System/370, System/390 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 system lines, e.g., VSE, VM, TPF.
IBM announced the System/360 (S/360) line of mainframes in April 1964. [4] The System/360 was a single series of compatible models for both commercial and scientific use. The number " 360 " suggested a "360 degree ," or "all-around" computer system.
International Business Machines (IBM) used to dominate the computer industry -- especially in the 1960s when mainframe computers were the only game in town. During the 1970s, that dominance gave ...
An IBM System z9 mainframe. A mainframe computer, informally called a mainframe or big iron, [1] is a computer used primarily by large organizations for critical applications like bulk data processing for tasks such as censuses, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and large-scale transaction processing.
The IBM System/360 (S/360) is a family of mainframe computer systems announced by IBM on April 7, 1964, [1] and delivered between 1965 and 1978. [2] System/360 was the first family of computers designed to cover both commercial and scientific applications and a complete range of applications from small to large.
IBM 7010 system: console (in front), disc drives and processing modules (left), tape storage, punch card reader and printer (right) The 700/7000 commercial architecture inspired the very successful IBM 1400 series of mid-sized business computers. In turn, IBM later introduced a mainframe version of the IBM 1410 called the IBM 7010. Data format
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