The IBM 7030, also known as Stretch, was IBM's first transistorized supercomputer. It was the fastest computer in the world from 1961 until the first CDC...
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The IBM 7950, also known as Harvest, was a one-of-a-kind adjunct to the Stretch computer which was installed at the United States National Security Agency...
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Werner Buchholz in June 1956, during the early design phase for the IBM Stretch computer, which had addressing to the bit and variable field length (VFL)...
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for a limousine IBM 7030 Stretch, IBM's first transistorized supercomputer Stretch Island, in the U.S. state of Washington The Stretch (novel), a thriller...
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2011-07-20. "IBM Stretch (aka IBM 7030 Data Processing System)". Brouhaha.com. Retrieved 2016-11-06. "IBM Archives: IBM 355 disk storage unit". IBM. 23 January...
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section 1, "The IBM 701-7094 II Sequence, a Family by Evolution", ISBN 0-07-004357-4 IBM 705 IBM 7030 Stretch IBM 7070 IBM 7094 IBM 7090/94 Architecture...
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steps varies with the machine architecture. For example: The 1956–61 IBM Stretch project proposed the terms Fetch, Decode, and Execute that have become...
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RAIDbook, 4th Edition, The RAID Advisory Board, June 1995, p.101 "IBM Stretch (aka IBM 7030 Data Processing System)". www.brouhaha.com. Retrieved 2023-09-13...
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the prefix 0x to indicate a hex constant may have had origins in the IBM Stretch systems. It is derived from the 0 prefix already in use for octal constants...
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processor include a perceptron-based neural branch predictor. The IBM 7030 Stretch, designed in the late 1950s, pre-executes all unconditional branches...
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Autocoder (redirect from IBM Autocoder)
eventually also were Autocoders for the IBM 1410 and 7010, IBM 7030 (Stretch), 7070/7072/7074, IBM 7080, and the IBM 1400 series. Symbolic Programming System...
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errors in a byte. "IBM Stretch (aka IBM 7030 Data Processing System)". brouhaha.com. 2009-06-18. Retrieved 2015-01-17. A typical IBM 7030 Data Processing...
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The IBM 704 is the model name of a large digital mainframe computer introduced by IBM in 1954. Designed by John Backus and Gene Amdahl, it was the first...
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IBM 7340: IBM 7070/IBM 7074 hypertape (7074 only) IBM 7400: IBM 7070/IBM 7074 Printer IBM 7500: IBM 7070/IBM 7074 Card Reader IBM 7501: IBM 7070/IBM 7074...
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basic memory cycle of 2.18 μs, using the IBM 7302 Core Storage core memory technology from the IBM 7030 (Stretch) project. With a processing speed of around...
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research into interleaved memory was performed at IBM in the 60s and 70s in relation to the IBM 7030 Stretch computer, but development went on for decades...
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STRETCH Assembly Program (STRAP) was the assembler for the IBM 7030 Stretch computer. The first version (STRAP-1) was a subset cross assembler that ran...
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The ILLIAC II was one of the first transistorized computers. Like the IBM Stretch computer, ILLIAC II was designed using "future transistors" that had...
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several computers for IBM including the IBM 701, the IBM 704 and the STRETCH. He discusses his work with Nathaniel Rochester and IBM's management of the design...
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Werner (1956-06-11). "7. The Shift Matrix" (PDF). The Link System. IBM. pp. 5–6. Stretch Memo No. 39G. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-04-04. Retrieved...
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When other companies (namely IBM) attempted to create machines with similar performance, they stumbled (IBM 7030 Stretch). In the 6600, Cray had solved...
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Bullets for educational campaigns. Dr. Lowell Wood famously bought an IBM Stretch computer from Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, with the hope that it...
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Standard Modular System (redirect from IBM Standard Modular System)
mounting racks developed by IBM in the late 1950s, originally for the IBM 7030 Stretch. They were used throughout IBM's second-generation computers,...
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started thinking about 7-bit characters, but this was ridiculous. With IBM's STRETCH computer as background, handling 64-character words divisible into groups...
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International Business Machines (IBM) is a multinational corporation specializing in computer technology and information technology consulting. Headquartered...
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to three million instructions per second, three times faster than the IBM Stretch, the speed champion for the previous couple of years. It remained the...
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Frances Allen (redirect from Frances Allen, IBM Fellow)
Allen developed and implemented her methods as part of compilers for the IBM STRETCH-HARVEST and the experimental Advanced Computing System. This work established...
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Committee heard of new and much faster US designs, the Univac LARC and IBM STRETCH, they were able to gain the attention of the National Research Development...
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by Werner Buchholz in June 1956 during the early design phase for the IBM Stretch computer. C – a programming language. Dennis Ritchie, having improved...
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nBITS on the WP 34S. FreePascal implements popcnt since version 3.0. The IBM STRETCH computer in the 1960s calculated the number of set bits as well as the...
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