Censorship and old less

[Peter]

There were many things that IBM came out with but dropped. One of the 
best op systems for micros was OS/2, a true multiusers system. I used it 
for a few years and it was far superior to the MS offerings at the tie, 
but IBM dropped it.  In the same misguided way they chose MSDos rather 
than CP/M for there micro computers.

Regards

Peter Goggin

On 9/11/18 11:23 pm, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2018 at 10:54, Peter <petergoggin at bigpond.com> wrote:
>> First programs were written in autocode for a computer using valves with an average up time of two hours, then the establishment purchased an IBM mainframe called Stretch which was the only true scientific computer made by IBM.
> Ooh, an IBM 7030! Nice!
>
> The first IBM supercomputer, the first IBM transistor computer, and
> the first computer to use instruction pipelining, prefetch,
> speculative execution, branch prediction and recovery, memory
> interleaving, multiprogramming, memory protection -- all standard
> techniques in PC processors since the Pentium and almost all computers
> today.
>
> Roughly an order of magnitude quicker than any other computer in its
> day, and roughly an order of magnitude more RAM.
>
> Even so, they only sold 9, I believe, and it was considered a failure.
> History sort of proved them wrong there.
>
> https://www.cnet.com/news/fifty-years-later-ibms-inventors-celebrate-the-stretch/
>
> http://www.drdobbs.com/its-not-easy-being-green-or-red-the-ibm/184404433
>