On April 7, 1964, International Business Machines introduced a new computer dubbed the System/360 but called a “mainframe” in reference to the large cabinet that housed the circuit boards. The low-end ...

Everything old is new again. In the 1960s, IBM's 650 mainframe operating system had two modes, MFT and MVT, in which process got its own address space and couldn't interface with others processes ...

Luboslava Uram is CTO and managing director at Solvd Group, a subsidiary of Allianz Group. Transforming the claim management experience. Mainframe computers have been a foundational technology in ...

When the first global distribution systems (GDS), such as American Airlines Inc.’s Sabre, came on the scene, they pioneered the use of computers in large-scale commercial applications and the ...