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4 unusual facts about IBM System/370


Bob O. Evans

He was responsible for the development of what was announced on June 30, 1970 as the IBM System/370 product line, initially with three models, later gradually expanded to 17 models.

Control store

The original System/360 models of IBM mainframe had read-only control store, but later System/360, System/370 and successor models loaded part or all of their microprograms from floppy disks or other DASD into a writable control store consisting of ultra-high speed random-access read-write memory.

IBM System/370

The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) had a backend for S/370, but it became obsolete over time and was finally replaced by the S/390 backend.

In June 1971, on the S/370-145 (one of which had to be 'smuggled' into Cambridge Scientific Center to prevent anybody noticing the arrival of an S/370 at that hotbed of virtual memory development – since this would have signaled that the S/370 was about to receive address relocation technology).


Akera bullata

This is a herbivorous bottom dweller (up to 370 m deep), which feeds on seagrasses in the genera Zostera and Posidonia.

Arthur Holmes

Holmes was a pioneer of geochronology, and performed the first accurate uranium-lead radiometric dating (specifically designed to measure the age of a rock) while an undergraduate in London, assigning an age of 370 Ma to a Devonian rock from Norway, improving on the work of Boltwood who published nothing more on the subject.

Bristol Type 138

This was to be a two-seater powered by a Rolls-Royce Kestrel S engine fitted with a similar two-stage supercharger installation and generating 500 hp (370 kW).

EMC Symmetrix

Symmetrix arrays, EMC's flagship product at that time, began shipping in 1990 as a storage array connected to an IBM mainframe via the block multiplexer channel .

Encyclopædia Perthensis

Interestingly, though 370 plates and maps are claimed on the title pages, there are only directions for the placement of 348 plates, of which only one could be described as a map, a plan of Washington, D.C. in 1800 by Andrew Ellicott.

Ernst-Günther Schenck

Prior to adoption, it was tested on 370 prisoners in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, some of whom died of hunger edema.

Foto-Mem

In this particular case the Risar was controlled by an IBM System/360 computer with a 24  k (words or bytes is not clear) index database, with abstracts being held on an associated disk system.

Frank Duncan

Duncan hit .370 in 1930, tying for third in the NNL behind only Mule Suttles and Willie Wells.

HASP

Houston Automatic Spooling Priority, a system program for IBM System/360 and IBM System/370 mainframe computer systems

HotMovies

In June, 2012, adult filmmaker Ed Powers announced the continuation of his Dirty Debutantes line, volume 370, exclusively on HotMovies websites including EdPowersVOD.com.

IBM 1442

The 1442 Model 6 attached to an IBM System/3 or IBM 1130, read 300 cpm and punched 80 columns per second.

The 1442 Model 7 attached to an IBM System/3 or IBM 1130, read 400 cpm and punched 180 columns per second.

IBM 3767

They will attach to IBM System/360 or IBM System/370 mainframe computers through IBM 3705 communications controllers, and supported by 3705 Network Control Program and mainframe software such as CICS and IMS.

IBM mainframe

There are software-based emulators for the System/370, System/390, and System z hardware, including FLEX-ES and the freely available Hercules emulator which runs under Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.

IBM System/3

Although the IBM System/38 and its successor the AS/400 and iSeries filled the same market niche, they used a radically different architecture, based on the failed IBM Future Systems project.

IBM System/36

If the operator "dialed up" the combination F-F-0-0 before performing an IPL, many diagnostics were skipped, causing the duration of the IPL to be about a minute instead of about 10 minutes.

IBM System/36 BASIC

System/36 BASIC was first offered in 1983, and as such, contained many of the trappings that a BASIC program would have encountered in the time period of the IBM PC, the Commodore 64, the VIC-20, the TRS-80, or many other offerings of the Seventies and early Eighties.

For example, on the Apple II, a programmer could embed a command into a program via PRINT, when prefaced by the character string CHR$(4).

IBM System/360 Model 40

The IBM System/360 Model 40 was developed and manufactured at IBM's facility in Poughkeepsie, U.S.A.: manufactured in Mainz, Germany; and manufactured in Fujisawa, Japan.

IBM System/38

(The earlier Plessey 250 was one of the few other computers with capability architecture ever sold commercially).

The System/38 was a descendant of the abandoned IBM Future Systems project, which had been designed as the replacement for the System/360 and System/370 mainframe architectures.

Inov-8

2008 - Won National Geographic Adventure Gear of the Year Award for Roclite 370

Nick Tredennick

Harry L. ("Nick") Tredennick is an American manager, inventor, VLSI design engineer and author who was involved in the development for Motorola's MC68000 and for IBM's Micro/370 microprocessors.

Parmigiani Fleurier

In 2006, Parmigiani produced the Bugatti 370, a driving watch based on the Bugatti Veyron supercar, which won the 2006 "Watch of the Year Award" from the Japanese press.

Paul H. Cress

He was a young lecturer in computer science at the University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) when, starting in 1966, he and his colleague Paul Dirksen led a team of programmers developing a fast Fortran programming language compiler called WATFOR (WATerloo FORtran), for the IBM System/360 family of computers.

PC-based IBM-compatible mainframes

As of November 1988, IBM was shipping a workstation version of the System/370 hardware intended to run IBM's VM/SP operating system.

Peter G. Gyarmati

In his PhD work – Adaptive Controls in Operating Systems — he proposed the so called ADIOS solution, extension to the System/370 family, with the OS/VS2 software.

Pharnabazus

Pharnabazus III (c. 370 – after 320 BC), grandson of the above, a general who resisted the invasion of Alexander the Great.

Pi Delta Phi

It currently numbers more than 370 chapters established at representative public and private colleges and universities in almost every state, as well as chapters in Paris and Aix-en-Provence.

Piper, Kansas

While not in the traditional center of Piper, the general area is home to the Schlitterbahn Vacation Village a 370-acre (1.5 km2) resort and waterpark, Cabela's, Nebraska Furniture Mart encompassing a total of 1.1 million sq.

Pons Cestius

In the 4th century the Pons Cestius was rebuilt by the Emperors Valentinian I, Valens and Gratian and re-dedicated in 370 as the Pons Gratiani.

Post-dated cheque

In Brazil, the drawer may seek damages in Justice if their cheque is cashed in before its due date, according to the jurisprudential orientation of the Superior Court of Justice, as per Summary No. 370 of such court.

Red Mansion Foundation

In 2007 the Foundation moved into its current premises at 46, Portland Place in London which contains a 4,000 square foot (370 m2) gallery space dedicated solely to an exhibition programme of contemporary Chinese art curated by guest curators.

Royal Thai Air Force Bases

The following data is taken from what appears to be a working paper summary of the United States Operations Mission (USOM) in Thailand dated 1968, found at the Cornell University Library "Pamphlet HC Thailand 370" 3-1924-007-619-574.

Saint Viator

Viator of Bergamo (d. 370), Italian saint, and second bishop of Bergamo

Sexton Foods

Using the IBM System/360 mainframe, Sexton designed a software system to automate inventory records, customer billing and accounts receivable.

Social network analysis software

Christakis, Nicholas and James H. Fowler "The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network Over 32 Years," New England Journal of Medicine 357 (4): 370-379 (26 July 2007)

Socket 370

Socket 370 (also known as the PGA370 socket) is a common format of CPU socket first used by Intel for Pentium III and Celeron processors to replace the older Slot 1 CPU interface on personal computers.

Softu

Around 2,370 households came to settle themselves in four camps around this town: one of the camps include people from the Bale Zone in Oromia, while three housed people claiming to come from Liben woreda in Borena Zone in Oromia.

Taff Vale Railway A class

The last seven locos 370, 373, 381, 383, 390, 398 and 402 were withdrawn together in August 1957 from Abercynon shed.

The Spooler

The Spooler was a systems software operating system package that provided spooling facilities for the IBM System/370 running DOS/VS, DOS/VSE environment, and IBM System/360 running DOS/360 or retrofitted with modified DOS/360, such as TCSC's EDOS.

Thurning, Norfolk

In 1839, the Rector was awarded a yearly rent-charge of £370, in lieu of tithes.

Time formatting and storage bugs

On 17 September 2042, at 23:53:57.370496 TAI, the Time of Day Clock on S/370 IBM mainframe and its successors, including the current zSeries, will roll over.

Tulsk

His grave, amongst 370, can be viewed at Borre British Cemetery in northern France (grave number 11.F.6).

University of Michigan Executive System

UMES was in use at the University of Michigan until 1967, when MTS was phased in to take advantage of the newer virtual memory time-sharing technology that became available on the IBM System/360 Model 67.

Zemel v. Rusk

Chief Justice Earl Warren, writing for the majority, held that the three-judge trial court was properly convened and that the Court therefore had jurisdiction over the appeal, citing Idlewild Liquor Corp. v. Epstein, 370 U. S. 713.


see also

Edinburgh Multiple Access System

Near the end of its life, the refactored version was back-ported (as EMAS-3) to the Amdahl 470 mainframe clone, and thence to the IBM System/370-XA architecture (the latter with help from the University of Kent, although they never actually ran EMAS-3).