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AnonTechie [soylentnews.org] writes:

Gene M. Amdahl, chief architect of IBM's System/360 mainframe [ibm.com] 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) [wikipedia.org].

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3004884/high-performance-computing/gene-amdahl-ibm-mainframe-architect-then-a-rival-has-died.html [computerworld.com]

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[Wikipedia Bio]: Gene Amdahl [wikipedia.org]

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