According to Kildall, the IBM representatives took the same flight to Florida that night that he and Dorothy took for their vacation, and they negotiated further on the flight, reaching a handshake agreement.

Even though the 3. 1x series still lacked most of the important features of OS / 2, such as long file names, a desktop, or protection of the system against misbehaving applications, Microsoft quickly took over the OS and GUI markets for the IBM PC.

The only spark that was needed for this combustible situation to ignite was an example of evangelism provided by the " new IBM "-a few employees who took " empowerment " seriously, able to coordinate their efforts through participation in TEAMOS2 FORUM, an internal IBM discussion group )-and passionate supporters outside IBM who adopted the ideas and modeled the behaviors of those who were early activists within IBM ..

In the 1980s, the IBM PC and its clones largely took over the small computer market, and DEC was unable to counter this competition.

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.

He said that " IBM had developed a paper plan for such a machine and took this paper plan across the country to some 20 concerns that we thought could use such a machine.

It was after the delivery of the 6600 that IBM took notice of this new company.

Despite being impacted by diversion of resources to jump start the Apple / IBM / Motorola effort, the POWER2 took five years from start to system shipment.

Eventually IBM declared that insurmountable complexity existed in the Database Manager code, and took the difficult decision to completely rewrite the software in their Toronto Lab.

The University of British Columbia ( UBC ) took the lead in converting MTS to run on the IBM S / 370 series ( an IBM S / 370-168 ) in 1974.

These took advantage of NTSC or PAL encoding to offer a range of colors from as low as 4 ( IBM CGA ) to 128 ( Atari 800 ) to 4096 ( Commodore Amiga ).

When he took a two-year sabbatical from IBM in 1971, he delved deeper into the data he had collected from his job, and discovered that there were significant differences between cultures in other organizations, but got the same ranking of answers by country.

The companies parted ways, and IBM took over all of subsequent development.

While many potential customers believed that the smaller computer could run most IBM PC software and an important market for the PCjr was executives who took data home to work on, in practice it proved incompatible with about 60 % of PC applications including WordStar and two programs often used to test PC clones ' compatibility, Lotus 1-2-3 and Microsoft Flight Simulator.

In November 1968, he took a position with IBM in Rochester, Minnesota.

But IBM had committed to a huge project, the System / 360, which took the company in a different direction.

Rockwell chose not to pursue IMS as a marketable product but IBM, which had served as a support contractor during development, subsequently took over the product and was successful in further developing it for market.

" Mac " McLoughlin ( another long time IBM executive ) led the company's field sales organization after starting up the Western U. S. Area of Operations.

The first computer network and packet switching network deployed for computer resource sharing was the Octopus Network at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that began connecting four Control Data 6600 computers to several shared storage devices ( including an IBM 2321 Data Cell in 1968 and an IBM Photostore in 1970 ) and to several hundred Teletype Model 33 ASR terminals for time sharing use starting in 1968.

As of 2011, these techniques are still used in most advanced microprocessors starting with the Intel Pentium and the Motorola / IBM PowerPC, as well as in many embedded microprocessors and microcontrollers from various manufacturers.

The claims and counter-claims made by both sides then escalated, with both IBM and Linux distributor Red Hat starting legal action against SCO, SCO threatening Linux users who do not take out SCO UNIX licenses, and SCO suing Novell ( see also SCO-Linux controversies ), AutoZone and DaimlerChrysler.

The earliest disk drives had fixed block sizes ( e. g. the IBM 350 disk storage unit ( of the late 1950s ) block size was 100 6 bit characters ) but starting with the 1301 IBM marketed subsystems that featured variable block sizes-a particular track could have blocks of different sizes.

The SYSLINUX Project is a suite of lightweight IBM PC MBR bootloaders for starting up computers with the Linux kernel.

In general, index registers became a standard part of computers during the technology's second generation, ( roughly 1954 – 1966 ) Machines in the IBM 700 / 7000 mainframe series had them, starting with the IBM 704 in 1954, though they were optional on some smaller machines such as the IBM 650 and IBM 1401.

IBM designed IMS with Rockwell and Caterpillar starting in 1966 for the Apollo program.

This was the first IBM laboratory devoted to pure science and later expanded into additional IBM Research locations in Westchester County, New York starting in the 1950s, including the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 1961.

* Apache WSRP4J was an Apache Incubator subproject spearheaded by IBM with the stated goal of " kick starting the broad adoption " of WSRP.

The lab also had a group which was one of the early adopters of object-oriented programming technologies within IBM using an internally developed language called ClassC to develop applications with more sophisticated graphical user interfaces which were just starting to be widely available.

The Model M keyboard, colloquially called a clicky keyboard, is a class of computer keyboard manufactured by IBM, Lexmark and Unicomp, starting in 1984.

He was a young lecturer in computer science at the University of Waterloo ( Waterloo, Ontario, Canada ) when, starting in 1966, he and his colleague Paul Dirksen led a team of programmers developing a fast Fortran programming language compiler called WATFOR ( WATerloo FORtran ), for the IBM System / 360 family of computers.

Competition was starting to do better, and IBM began to lose market share in one of its " own " segments.

* IBM Developerworks starting point

The term pertains to the IBM mainframe operating system line, starting with OS / 360, and is still used by its successors, including the current z / OS.

SET was developed by SETco, led by VISA and MasterCard ( and involving other companies such as GTE, IBM, Microsoft, Netscape, RSA, Safelayer — formerly SET Projects — and VeriSign ) starting in 1996.

* Japanese Computer Manufacturer ( s ), i. e. the three Japanese government-supported companies competing against IBM starting in the late 1960s: Fujitsu, Hitachi, and NEC

For example, the IBM System / 370 used a CPU that was primarily 32 bit, but it used 128-bit precision inside its floating point units to facilitate greater accuracy and range in floating point numbers.

By this point, both the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh had a much larger market share than the Amiga platform.

The turning point for XyWrite came in the form of a disastrous near-partnership with IBM, which was seeking a modern replacement for its venerable DisplayWrite word processor.

AltiVec is a floating point and integer SIMD instruction set designed and owned by Apple, IBM and Freescale Semiconductor, formerly the Semiconductor Products Sector of Motorola, ( the AIM alliance ), and implemented on versions of the PowerPC including Motorola's G4, IBM's G5 and POWER6 processors, and P. A.

To address technical workstation, supercomputer, and engineering / scientific markets, IBM Austin ( the home of the RS / 6000s ) then started developing a time-to-market single-chip version of the Power2 ( P2SC ) in parallel with the development of a sophisticated 64-bit PowerPC processor with the POWER2 extensions and twin sophisticated MAF floating point units ( the POWER3 / 630 ).

Floating point became a focus for the America Project, and IBM was able to use new algorithms developed in the early 1980s that could support 64-bit double-precision multiplies and divides in a single cycle.

Spassky finished in fourth place at the annual IBM tournament held in Amsterdam, one point behind winners Petrosian and Albin Planinc.

The IBM 704, the first mass-produced computer with floating point arithmetic hardware, was introduced by IBM in 1954.

This was the crucial turning point: the industry as a whole was no longer content to let IBM make all the major decisions about technical direction.

* Auxiliary Unit ( IBM 653 ) Core storage, index registers, floating point arithmetic

However, by this point, a number of other companies — notably Apple, IBM, Microsoft, and even Sun itself — were claiming they would soon be releasing similar object-oriented operating systems and development tools of their own.

The 1103A was contemporary and competitor to the IBM 704, which also employed vacuum tube logic, magnetic core memory, and hardware floating point.

In August 1973 IBM announced the IBM 3650 and 3660 Store Systems that were, in essence, a mainframe computer used as a store controller that could control 128 IBM 3653 / 3663 point of sale registers.

The processors in this family are optimized for commercial workloads ( integer performance, large caches, branches ) and do not feature the strong floating point performance of the processors in the IBM POWER family, its sibling.

* Just like its IBM PC predecessor, the PC / AT supported an optional math co-processor chip, the Intel 80287, for faster execution of floating point operations.

It was first implemented for the IBM System / 360 Model 91 ’ s floating point unit.

Now, let's move the radix point left, moving four bits at a time ( because IBM exponents are written to the power of 16, not 2 as in IEEE ): 1110110. 101 =. 01110110101 · 16 < sup > 2 </ sup >

Publix completed the implementation of its new point of sale terminals ( PRICE — Publix Retail Improved Checkout Experience ) in 2006, replacing the previous generation of IBM 4690 terminals.

The difference between these two methods became a point of interest during the SCO v. IBM case.

SCO now had little legal ground at this point and therefore began numerous legal claims and threats against many of the major names in the computer industry, including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Novell, Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems and Red Hat.