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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: architectural goals, Byte Addressability And Beyond
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 13:46:05 -0000 (UTC)
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According to OrangeFish  <OrangeFish@invalid.invalid>:
>On 2024-06-02 15:44, John Levine wrote:
>> IBM made several S/360 and S/370 add-in boards for PCs. They worked
>> but were never very popular, probably because nobody bought a
>> mainframe for the CPU and PC peripherals are underpowered.
>
>Were they not marketed as a way of developing s/w on a PC without 
>chewing up mainframe time?

I heard it was software licensing. You were allowed to run stuff on
your PC/360 without paying for an extra seat as you would if you were
using a mainframe terminal.

They still weren't very popular, even though they were technically quite clever.
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