Title :
Stretch-ing Is Great Exercise— It Gets You in Shape to Win
Author :
Brooks, Frederick P., Jr.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Abstract :
IBM´s Project Stretch (1955-1961) lost the company some $35 million big 1960 dollars. Yet the project, a bold adventure into transistorized computers, drove into existence new technologies in circuits, packaging, memory, and I/O upon which IBM built its successful second-generation computer product lines. The architectural, instruction-pipelining, arithmetic, and software innovations were crucial for IBM´s third-generation System/360 product family and even for its later RISC innovation.
Keywords :
IBM computers; pipeline processing; reduced instruction set computing; I/O; IBM project stretch; RISC innovation; instruction pipelining; second generation computer product lines; software innovations; transistorized computers; Circuits; Contracts; Home computing; Laboratories; Packaging; Project management; Proposals; Shape; Supercomputers; Technological innovation; Stretch computers; high-performance computing; transistorized computers;
Journal_Title :
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MAHC.2010.26
