Byte sizes (was Re: 2.8M 3.5' floppy

Eric Smith eric at brouhaha.com
Tue Mar 15 17:47:05 CST 2005


William wrote:
> Most IBMs do quite a lot of checking on just about every datapath. I think
> this all started with the S/360. Many even have duplicate ALUs for
> checking.

That originated with the IBM 7030 Data Processing System (Stretch),
introduced in 1961.  It was also the first system to use ECC memory.

Eric



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