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From: koved@umcp-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: IBM "Single Level Store" / Re: Why Not Virtual Files?
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Date: Sat, 28-Apr-84 16:51:21 EDT
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Posted: Sat Apr 28 16:51:21 1984
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A description of the IBM System/38 can be found in the second edition
of the Bell & Newell book.  There are 3 articles on the system and
its architecture.  I have tried to get a copy of a series of articles
about the System/38 (published roughly 1978, IBM Publication S580-0237),
but it appears to be an obsolete publication, and may be out of print.
Does anyone have a copy?

I have talked with one of the original engineers of the System/38, and
he tells me that it works, and the customers love it (so much for the
propoganda).  For those people who don't know what a System/38 is, it
is a medium sized business machine (it seems such a waste....it could
do so much more!!).  It uses message passing for device independent
communication, and hardware descriptors for addressing and capabilities.
 
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