• DocumentCode
    1439787
  • 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
  • Volume
    32
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2010
  • Firstpage
    4
  • Lastpage
    9
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1058-6180
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MAHC.2010.26
  • Filename
    5430756
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1439787