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>"The System/360 covered the whole circle of application (i.e. 360°) from business to scientific." Wow. I did not know that there was a marketing component to
by bogomipz 6y ago
>"The System/360 covered the whole circle of application (i.e. 360°) from business to scientific."
Wow. I did not know that there was a marketing component to the name 360 I just always assumed it was just another prosaic IBM product number.
- kens 6y agoMost of IBM's product numbers are annoyingly random, but sometimes marketing gets it right, as in the case of the System/360. Amusingly, the aerospace version of System/360 is called System/4 Pi: these computers are operating in three dimensions, and just as a circle has 360 degrees, a sphere has 4π steradians. IBM also had System/370 which was the 1970s version of the 1960s System/360, and similarly System/390 in the 1990s.