IBM System/360 Model 75
{{Short description|High-end IBM computer model from 1960s}}
{{Infobox computing device
|name = IBM System/360 Model 75
|logo = IBM Logo 1967-1972.svg
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|developer = IBM
|release date = April 22, 1965
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|discontinued =
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|successor = Model 195
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The IBM System/360 Model 75 is a discontinued high end/high performance{{cite web|title=IBM System/360 Model 75 Functional Characteristics|url=http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/functional_characteristics/A22-6889-0_360-75_funcChar.pdf|publisher=IBM|id=A22-6889-0}} system that was introduced on April 22, 1965.{{cite web|url=https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP2075.html|title=IBM Archives: System/360 Model 75|website=IBM|date=23 January 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327055011/https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP2075.html|archive-date=2023-03-27|url-status=dead}} Although it played many roles in IBM's System/360 lineup,high end Main processor under ASP when the latter was introduced in 1967, high end Support Processor, and more than one Time-sharing option: TSO and CALL/OS it accounted for a small fraction of a percent of the 360 systems sold.An ADP Newsletter cited on page 56 in {{cite book|editor-last1=Weiss|editor-first1=Eric A. |title=Computer USage Essentials|date=1969|publisher=McGraw-Hill|lccn=71-76142}} says (re S/360) "75-91 .. 0.1%" Five Model 75 computers housed at NASA's Real Time Computer Complex were used during the Apollo program.{{cite web|url=https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/apollo/|title=IBM 100 Icons of progress: The Apollo Missions|date=7 March 2012 |publisher=IBM|access-date=2019-03-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128195218/https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/apollo/|archive-date=2023-01-28|url-status=dead}}
Models
File:Waterloo-IBM-System-360model75.jpg (1968)]]
Three models, the H75, I75, and J75, were respectively configured with one, two, or four IBM 2365 Model 3 Processor Storage units, each of which provided 262,144 (256K) bytes of core memory, so that the H75 had 262,144 (256K) bytes of core, the I75 had 524,288 (512K), and the J75 1,048,576 (1 MB).
Performance
The high performance of the Model 75 was attributed to half a dozen advanced features, including Parallel arithmetic, Overlapped memory fetch, and Parallel addition for address calculation.
Furthermore, independent storage sections provided two-way (H75) or four-way (I75, J75) interleaving of memory access. Even with only two-way interleaving, "an effective sequential access rate of 400 nanoseconds per double word (eight bytes) is possible".
Features
The Model 75 implements the complete System/360 "universal instruction set" architecture, including floating-point, decimal, and character operations as standard features.
References
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External links
- {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190628094334/http://ibiblio.org/comphist/node/105|date=2019-06-28|title=Front panel of IBM System/360 Model 75}}
- {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327060514/https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/images/overlay/2423PH2075.jpg|date=2023-03-27|title=Photo of IBM System/360 Model 75}}
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