The Era Of General Acceleration Has Begun

The Era Of General Acceleration Has Begun

 

The Era Of General Acceleration Has Begun

The era of general purpose computing began in April 1964 with the launch of the aptly named System/360 mainframe by IBM. Computing was simpler then: Batch processing of integer data and, eventually, online transaction processing.

But the idea was that one family of systems could support a whole stack of systems software, including operating systems, databases, transaction monitors, programming tools, and such. Thanks to the System/360’s enormous success, soon thereafter dozens of different minicomputer makers stormed the datacenter with their own unique processors and software stacks tuned for them, aimed at specific workloads – some of them back office work like the System/360 mainframes did, some of them focused on new eras such as simulation and modeling.

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