Emotional stories about processors for first computers: part 13 (IBM 370)

[litwr]

IBM System/370

This part primarily focuses on comparing the mainframe machine language with other systems that were popular between the 70s and 90s. These are primarily the x86, 68k, VAX, and ARM. The System/390 and, in particular System/Z are considered very fragmentary - the main attention is paid to the System/370.

The IBM/360 was a

Comments

[anonymous]

S/370 is really a 1960s architecture; basically amped-up S/360.

But you're ignoring vast swathes of competition. How about the Control Data machines, or Burroughs, or Univac or Cray? The list is endless.

[litwr]

Thank you. Sorry, I just know little about those titles. The IBM/370 was in active use in the 80s when the other regarded in the article architectures were in use too. This article is a material rather about period of the 1975-95.