A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing

[Liam Proven]

2009/7/1 Rich Alderson <RichA at vulcan.com>:
>> From: Liam Proven
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 5:00 PM
>
>> Tom's Hardware - a popular site for PC hardware tweakers and
>> overclockers - has done an ambitious article on the development of the
>> mainframe:
>
>> http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/508-mainframe-computer-history.html
>
>> It's a little American-centric but it's not at all bad.
>
> *American*-centric!?!  How about *IBM*-centric?!?
>
> After the 1960s, the only non-IBM product mentioned is the (minicomputer)
> VAX-11/780.  (OK, *super*minicomputer, but even so...)
>
> And in the 1960s, the only other DEC product mentioned is *the PDP-8*????
> (with a brushoff for several years of successful sales prior to the -8, no
> less.)  Another mini, and no acknowledgement of the PDP-10 mainframe on which
> the bulk of the development of the modern Internet took place.
>
> It would be nice if they knew what they were talking about.
>
> IMAO,
> Rich

Ohboy. Can't deny any of your observations, but I though that for a
site from a world that barely knows that anything other than x86
exists or ever has, it wasn't too bad!

But don't tell us - tell them, in their comments boards, or mail the author.

Or better still, write a complementary piece - hell, perhaps we could
do it collectively on the list as a group effort? - and submit it to
Tom's HW as a follow-on, filling in the gaps...?

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