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Amdahl, Blaauw and Brooks: architecture of IBM System/360

Documented the System/360 architecture and its rationale for a compatible family spanning commercial, scientific, real-time and logical workloads, including storage, input-output and supervisor facilities.

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Documented the System/360 architecture and its rationale for a compatible family spanning commercial, scientific, real-time and logical workloads, including storage, input-output and supervisor facilities.

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The record is the exact three-author 1964 IBM Journal of Research and Development paper. It does not credit every System/360 engineer, absorb operating-system implementation, or treat the full product family's deployment and commercial impact as evidence from this article alone.

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Gene M. Amdahl; Gerrit A. Blaauw; Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

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Amdahl, Blaauw and Brooks: architecture of IBM System/360

Documented the System/360 architecture and its rationale for a compatible family spanning commercial, scientific, real-time and logical workloads, including storage, input-output and supervisor facilities.

Scientific scope

The record is the exact three-author 1964 IBM Journal of Research and Development paper. It does not credit every System/360 engineer, absorb operating-system implementation, or treat the full product family's deployment and commercial impact as evidence from this article alone.

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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.

People and systems

Gene M. Amdahl; Gerrit A. Blaauw; Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.

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