Edson HendricksEdson C. Hendricks (May 22, 1945 - August 29, 2020) was an American computer scientist who worked at IBM, where he developed RSCS (later known as VNET), a fundamental software that powered the world’s largest network (or network of networks) prior to the Internet. RSCS directly influenced both Internet development and user acceptance of networking between independently managed organizations.
VM (operating system)VM, often written VM/CMS, is a family of virtual machineoperating systems used on IBM mainframes including the System/370, System/390, IBM Z and compatible systems. It replaced the older CP-67 that formed the basis of the CP/CMS operating system. It was first released as the free Virtual Machine Facility/370 for the S/370 in 1972, followed by chargeable upgrades and versions that added support for new hardware.
Cambridge Scientific CenterThe IBMCambridge Scientific Center was a corporate research laboratory established in February 1964 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Situated at 545 Technology Square (Tech Square), in the same building as MIT's Project MAC, it was later renamed the IBM Scientific Center. It is most notable for creating the CP-40 and the control program portions of CP/CMS, a virtual machine operating system developed for the IBM System/360-67.
Houston Automatic Spooling PriorityThe Houston Automatic Spooling Priority Program, commonly known as HASP, is an extension of the OS/360 and OS/VS2 (SVS) operating systems, providing extended support for "job management, data management, task management, and remote job entry." It was the basis for JES2 in MVS. HistoryOS/360 included spooling routines, called reader/interpreters and output writers. Each reader/interpreter was "responsible for reading one input job stream" – that is one input device.
BITNETBITNET was a co-operative university computer network in the United States founded in 1981 by Ira Fuchs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and Greydon Freeman at Yale University. The first network link was between CUNY and Yale. BackgroundThe name BITNET originally meant "Because It's There Network", but it eventually came to mean "Because It's Time Network".
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IBM VNETVNET is an international computer networking system deployed in the mid-1970s and still in current, though greatly diminished, use. It was developed inside IBM and provided the main email and file-transfer backbone for the company throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Through it, a number of protocols were developed to deliver email amongst time sharing computers over alternative transmission systems.
SHARE (computing)SHARE Inc. is a volunteer-run user group for IBMmainframe computers that was founded in 1955 by Los Angeles-area users of the IBM 704 computer system. It evolved into a forum for exchanging technical information about programming languages, operating systems, database systems, and user experiences for enterprise users of small, medium, and large-scale IBM computers such as IBM S/360, IBM S/370, zSeries, pSeries, and xSeries.
MVSMultiple Virtual Storage (MVS) is the most commonly used operating system on the System/370, System/390 and IBM ZIBM mainframe computers. IBM developed MVS, along with OS/VS1 and SVS, as a successor to OS/360. It is unrelated to IBM's other mainframe operating system lines, e.g., VSE, VM, TPF.
Request price quotationRequest price quotation or RPQ is a long-standing IBM designation for a product or component that is potentially available, but that is not on the "standard" price list. Typical RPQ offerings are custom interfaces, hardware modifications, research or experimental systems, or variable-cost items. In the days of IBM's large mainframes, e.g. the System/360 and System/370 series, many unusual features were flagged as "RPQ".
IBMAmerican multinational technology companyInternational Business Machines Corporation, doing business asIBM (nicknamed Big Blue), is an American multinationaltechnology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is a publicly traded company and one of the 30 companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.Leased lineA leased line is a private telecommunication circuit between two or more locations provided according to a commercial contract. It is sometimes also known as a private circuit, private connect, and as a data line. Traditionally, leased lines were used by businesses to connect geographically distant offices for phone and networking.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.