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| 1960s |
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| IBM develops RPG, Report Program Generator, for developing business applications, especially generating reports from data. |
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| 1969 |
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| IBM releases System/3, the first system by IBM to use transistors. System/3 also introduces Monolithic Systems Technology, which enables small business to effectively use computers. |
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| 1977 |
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| System/34 replaces System/3. |
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| 1978 |
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| IBM announces System/38 but did not ship until 1980. |
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| 1980 |
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| John Cocke develops RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) architecture. RISC greatly boosts computer speed by using simplified machine instructions for frequently used functions. It is adopted into PowerPC computers, AS/400, and RS/6000 servers and other products. |
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| 1983 |
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| IBM releases System/36; it is applauded for its ease of use and reliability. System/36 is still built on the basic architecture of the original System/3. |
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| 1988 |
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| IBM introduces AS/400, short for Application System/400. In developing AS/400, IBM combined System/36's ease of use and System/38's advanced architecture. Whereas most other minicomputer vendors have seen their market eroded by PCs and client/server systems, IBM has reasonable success with its AS/400 series. |
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| 1995 |
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| IBM obtains a business alliance with Lotus Notes Domino as a foray for IBM into ecommerce. IBM machines are secure, so they are excellent candidates to provide firewall protection. IBM revamped their operating systems as a result of this alliance and now can fit into ebusiness. |
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| 1999 |
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| IBM releases a major operating system for AS/400. IBM says this functionally-rich version of OS/400 is the largest single release of new function and code on the AS/400 in recent years. Its more than 3.2 million new lines of code were written primarily for e-business, providing small to mid-sized customers a powerful engine to exploit ecommerce opportunities on the Internet. |
