The frequently seen claim that they stand for " contents of address register " and " contents of decrement register " does not match the implementation, and the IBM 704 did not have a programmer-accessible address register.

By 2008, the Lotus. com domain name stopped showing a stand alone site, and started redirecting to the IBM. com domain name, to the page www. ibm. com / software / lotus.

The same work also compares Transmeta's patented technology with prior art published and in some cases patented by IBM, and suggests that some claims might not stand detailed scrutiny.

VMX cleverly achieved a settlement where the patent was let stand, not challenged in court and IBM, Wang and AT & T ( in separate settlements ) received royalty-free licenses to all VMX patents.

The term byte was coined by Dr. Werner Buchholz in July 1956, during the early design phase for the IBM Stretch computer.

The effort was sufficiently complete that during the summer of 1973 the Unix kernel for the PDP-11 was rewritten in C. During the 1972 – 73 period there was a need to port to Honeywell 635 and IBM 360 / 370 machines, so Mike Lesk wrote the " portable I / O package " which would become the C " standard I / O " routines.

Watts Humphrey began developing his process maturity concepts during the later stages of his 27 year career at IBM.

This time, IBM submitted a candidate which was deemed acceptable — a cipher developed during the period 1973 – 1974 based on an earlier algorithm, Horst Feistel's Lucifer cipher.

John Backus said during a 1979 interview with Think, the IBM employee magazine, " Much of my work has come from being lazy.

In the private sector he has worked for Mitre Corp., GE, Ford, General Motors ; during the late 1970s Singer consulted with Exxon, Shell, Unocal Sun Oil, and ARCO on oil pricing ; and Lockheed Martin, Martin – Marietta, McDonnell-Douglas, ANSER, and IBM on space research.

The IBM 3270 display terminal subsystem was designed and developed by IBM's Kingston, NY, laboratory ( which later closed during IBM's difficult time in the mid-1990s ).

The Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries manufactured close copies of IBM mainframes during the Cold War ; the BESM series and Strela are examples of an independently designed Soviet computer.

But during World War II, IBM subsidiaries in occupied Europe never stopped delivery of punch cards to Dehomag, and documents uncovered show that senior executives at IBM world headquarters in New York took great pains to maintain legal authority over Dehomag's operations and assets through the personal intervention of IBM managers in neutral Switzerland, directed via personal communications and private letters.

In 1988, during the so-called " Unix wars ", DEC joined with IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and others to form the Open Software Foundation ( OSF ) to develop a version of Unix.

In addition IBM introduced during the SuperComputing 2007 ( SC07 ) conference in Reno a new POWER6-based System p 575 with 32 POWER6 cores at 4. 7 GHz and up to 256GB of RAM with water cooling.

Their commercial development came in work by Burroughs ( later Unisys ), Convex Computer ( later Hewlett-Packard ), Honeywell Information Systems Italy ( HISI ) ( later Groupe Bull ), Silicon Graphics ( later Silicon Graphics International ), Sequent Computer Systems ( later IBM ), Data General ( later EMC ) and Digital ( later Compaq, now HP ) during the 1990s.

An IBM 716 line printer, based on the IBM 407 wheel mechanism, attached to an IBM 7090 mainframe at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center during Project Mercury.

* Friden Flexowriter combination typewriter, paper tape punch, and paper tape reader, designed by IBM during the 1940s and bought out by Friden in the late 1950s ( Retrieved April 10, 2007 )

The original IBM Personal Computer | IBM PC ( Model 5150 ) motivated the production of clones during the early-1980s.

A number of computers based on the 8086 and 8088 processors were manufactured during this period, but with different architecture from the IBM PC, and with their own versions of DOS and CP / M-86.

The Columbia company closely modeled the IBM PC and produced the first " compatible " PC ( more or less compatible to the IBM PC standard ) during June 1982, soon followed by Eagle Computer.

* Compaq beating IBM to market during 1986 with Compaq Deskpro 386, the first 80386-based PC.

Despite popularity of its ThinkPad set of laptop PC's, IBM finally relinquished its role as a PC manufacturer during April 2005, when it sold its consumer PC division to Lenovo for $ 1. 75 billion.

In April 2010, IBM published an announcement about the upcoming 7. 1 release.

In March, 2010, TurboHercules SAS filed a complaint with European Commission regulators, alleging that IBM infringed EU antitrust rules through its alleged tying of mainframe hardware to its mainframe operating system, and the EC opened a preliminary investigation.

In one report in 2010, Moynihan's initiative was labeled " a favor to IBM.

In October 2010, IBM announced the general availability ( GA ) of DB2 10 for z / OS.

* Larry Hirst ( b. 1951 ), chairman of IBM Europe, Middle East and Africa between 2008 and 2010.

As of January 2010, it became " SPSS: An IBM Company ".

Complete transfer of business to IBM was done by October 1, 2010.

* IBM SPSS Statistics 19. 0-August 2010

As of mid-2012, the highest clock rate on a production processor is the IBM z196, clocked at 5. 2 GHz, which was released in June of 2010.

The latest version of IBM i is 7. 1, announced on April 13, 2010 and released on April 23, 2010 ( Version Support Schedule ).

In 2010 New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research ( NIWA ) named its new IBM supercomputer " FitzRoy " in honour of Robert FitzRoy.

In 2010, IBM released systems based on the POWER7 processor with 8 cores with each having four Simultaneous Intelligent Threads.

He retired from IBM in March 2010.

In June 2010 the last four operating IBM 1800s operating at Pickering Nuclear Generating Station in Pickering, Ontario, Canada were removed from service.

* IBM CTR Book, individually distributed, 2010

In 2010 IBM applied for a patent on how to extract mental images of human faces from the human brain.

* Apache WSRP4J Java Implementation of a WSRP Producer ( Initiated by IBM in 2003 and Terminated in 2010 )

In October 2010, Legal & General outsourced its remaining IT areas to IBM.

According to a recent ( 06. 2010 ) IDC report, NetApp is a third company in network storage industry " Big 5's list ", behind EMC and IBM, and ahead of HP and Dell, with largest annual revenue growth ( 47. 4 %).

In January 2010, as part of a reorganization of IBM Software Group, Cognos software and software from recently acquired SPSS were brought together to create the Business Analytics division.

On October 25, 2010, at the Business Analytics Forum in Las Vegas, IBM General Manager for Business Analytics and former Cognos CEO Rob Ashe announced IBM Cognos 10.

See also the 2010 work by IBM in the transistor section above in which ' processors ' of fast transistors on graphene sheets were made .

In February 2010, researchers at IBM reported that they have been able to create graphene transistors with an on and off rate of 100 gigahertz, far exceeding the rates of previous attempts, and exceeding the speed of silicon transistors with an equal gate length.