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Path: ...!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!not-for-mail From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: architecture, The Design of Design Date: Wed, 8 May 2024 02:51:30 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Taughannock Networks Message-ID: <v1epbi$1ptf$2@gal.iecc.com> References: <v03uh5$gbd5$1@dont-email.me> <65q_N.50691$P_e7.762@fx09.iad> <v1dv83$gq7$1@gal.iecc.com> <jSv_N.3414$ba_5.1647@fx46.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 8 May 2024 02:51:30 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="59311"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" In-Reply-To: <v03uh5$gbd5$1@dont-email.me> <65q_N.50691$P_e7.762@fx09.iad> <v1dv83$gq7$1@gal.iecc.com> <jSv_N.3414$ba_5.1647@fx46.iad> Cleverness: some X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: johnl@iecc.com (John Levine) Bytes: 1749 Lines: 16 According to Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net>: >>Wikipedia says that while S/360 and the B5500 were announced in 1964, >>the B3500 was announced in 1966. In the discussion of MCP on the B3500 > >Sorry, I mean to imply that the B3500 (and successors) were 100% sw >compatible within the medium systems family. > >Likewise for the large systems (B5500) line. ... Oh, OK. In view of the timing, I'd guess that the people at Burroughs, who were certainly not dumb, looked at the S/360 material and figured oh, that's a good idea, we can do that too. -- Regards, John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly