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on Saturday November 14 2015, @06:18AM
from the a-loss-to-the-computing-world dept.
from the a-loss-to-the-computing-world dept.
Gene M. Amdahl, chief architect of IBM's System/360 mainframe and later the creator of the IBM plug-compatible mainframe vendor that bore his name, has died aged 92.
Amdahl was born in South Dakota, earning a bachelor's degree in engineering physics at the state university in 1948.
In 1950, as a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he and Charles H. Davidson designed a digital computer. In 1952, the year Amdahl received his doctorate in theoretical physics, the university began building the computer, the Wisconsin Integrally Synchronized Computer (WISC).
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You know, the difference between this company and the Titanic is that the
Titanic had paying customers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @03:16PM
The 370 ain't done 'til Amdahl don't run!