In
<CAAopband85SVQ7ED_Txkm7SN7FTU=4MugGcbY0VVMOhuq=d...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 10/28/2012
at 02:32 PM, Matthew Donald <[email protected]> said:
>zTPF,TPF,ACP, IPARS,PARS,SABRE are all IPL'able operating systems
>dating back to the 1950's, but in continuous development since then.
>PARS and SABRE originally ran on the IBM 7090(??).
I recall it being the 7090, but that conflicts with your later text.
>A side note: one technical challenge IBM has with developing
>SABRE was where to store the data - the solution was to
>invent the disk drive (RAMAC).
The 305 RAMAC had a disk drive long before the 7090. It's conceivable
that IBM developed the 1301[1] for SABRE, although I've never seen
such a claim.
[1] Which I believe was derived from the 7303 disk drive on the
IBM 7030 (Stretch.).
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