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

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Computer architecture and hardware · ALGORITHM

Reference score250,000Provisional editorial estimate of this exact contribution; its grade is assessed separately.

What changed

Documented compatible System/360 architectural interface spanning diverse workloads.

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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The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. 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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Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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