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Is he though? Or is this IBM's desperate attempt to claim some experience relevant to ARM now that they killed PowerPC? I mean, its four paragraphs under histor

• spear 6y ago
  Did you read your link? Even that article says the IBM 801 is considered to be the first RISC. And since you're citing Wikipedia, look at the entry for Cocke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cocke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cocke Also, even though PowerPC is gone, IBM is still very much relevant in high-end RISC development -- they still make POWER computers.
• h8hawk 6y ago
  He won Turing award for that in 1987.
• dantle 6y ago
  It's harder to imagine coming from the IBM of today, but historically the company has earned many laurels from its numerous important contributions to computing. As my computer architecture professor used to say, "everything that's worth inventing already has been at IBM." In addition to RISC, they created out-of-order, superscalar processing, relational databases, TCM, magnetic hard discs, DRAM, etc.
  • kkylin 6y ago
    IBM Research also supported a number of first rate scientists. Just a couple of the better known names: Mandelbrot and Landauer worked there, and Charles Bennett still works there I think.
    • pfdietz 6y ago
      Cuprate superconductors were discovered by Bednorz and Müller at IBM in Zurich in 1986. They got the Nobel for it the next year. The physics Nobel the previous year also went to researchers at IBM Zurich, for the invention of atomic force microscopy.