Re: IBM 9020 FAA/ATC Systems from 1960's

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From: jav... John Varela
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 01:37

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On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 00:56:11, jav...@earthlink.net (John Varela) wrote:

	(Responding to my own post.)

> The contract was awarded to IBM in the summer of 1964 and the first one, a 
> 9020A all 360/50 system, was delivered to the National Aviation Facilities 
> Experimental Center (NAFEC) near Atlantic City in the summer of 1965, and 
> software development started.

I should have mentioned that, when the system was delivered in the summer of 
1965, it came with its operating system, including multiprocessing fault 
detection and recovery.  As best I can recall, there were never any problems 
with the multiprocessing features of the OS.

-- 
    John Varela

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