[inforoots] Re: The IBM 7090 & Yacht Handicapping

[John C Green Jr]

At 12:31 PM 11/15/05, Tom Van Vleck <thvv at multicians.org> wrote:

>The time I was writing about was the early 60s.
>The three shift deal at the MIT Comp Center was in
>effect in 1961 and continued until about 1967.
>Relations cooled between MIT and IBM when Project MAC
>chose another vendor for its second timesharing system,
>but MIT continued to run CTSS on a 7094 until 1973.
>
>regards, tom

Don't forget that IBM's reaction to Project MAC choosing a GE 645
(an enhanced GE 635 with the enhancements specified by MIT) ...
It included designing the System/360 Model 67 that added paging
to the Model 65 and writing CP67/CMS in MIT's Tech Square building.

That's not what I would describe as "relations cooled."

Along with GE 645 & Multics Project MAC also had DEC PDP-6 and
ITS.

Regards,
JC Green