9 Jul
2014
9 Jul
'14
5:24 a.m.
On 07/08/2014 07:11 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 7/8/2014 2:07 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
The invention of the 8" diskette as the boot media for the 360
370, not 360. the 360's had microcode in "ROM", one of the innovations of the System/370 was soft loaded microcode.
Yeah. I thought about it a bit and did not feel right with the timeline. It would have to have been just before the 370. Makes more sense it was the 370. I ran with the BUNCH back then. IBM stuff was to be generally ignored...