Engineers have spent decades shrinking computers, constructing lighter, and more powerful machines. Nearly every remarkable scientific and cultural achievement of the last half century of human history traces back to this progress. 20 μm In the late 1960s, transistors reached widths of 20 μm or...
IBM's chief information officer has directed the company to begin an internal project to evaluate Linux for use on desktop computers, a further endorsement of the open-source operating system. A November memo from CIO Bob Greenberg said IBM Chairman Sam Palmisano has "challenged the IT organizatio...
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The primary objective of ITSM is to provide the optimal deployment, operation and management of every IT resource for every user across an enterprise. Users include customers, employees or business partners. IT resources include hardware, software and other computing assets such as laptop computers, ...
The IBM System/360 was a family of mainframe computers designed and developed by IBM. It had a major impact on technology and on the computing field, and it set IBM on the road to dominate the computing field for the next 20 years, up to the arrival of personal computers in the 1980s...
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The titular character is Don Estridge, a decidedly atypical IBM employee who was instrumental in creating the personal computer market as we know it. It’s not that IBM invented the personal computer — far from it. But the birth of the PC brought personal computers to the mainstream, ...
PC became one of the most popular computer design standards in the world, and the only significant competition it faced from a non-compatible platform throughout the 1980s was from the Apple Macintosh product line. The majority of modern personal computers are distant descendants of the IBM PC....
In 1964, IBM introduced what was to become the de facto standard for large company business computers with its System/360. Orders for the mainframe computer line outpaced sales forecasts, and IBM received more than 1,000 orders within four weeks of the product's announcement, according to the...
The view inside IBM was more optimistic. The company quickly assembled a team from across its ranks and created an environment at the project’s Michigan headquarters that was part assembly line, part skunkworks. Computers and peripherals flowed in for testing and configuration before being ...