From: "Bill Long" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2017 12:27 AM
On Apr 6, 2017, at 4:47 AM, W. J. Metzger <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> IBM then
>> combined their business and scientific lines into one line with the
>> introduction of the 360 series (late 70s if I recall well), which
>> introduced the 32-bit word.
>Late 60’s. At least when I took intro CS in 1969, it was on a 360/65.
The S/360 was delivered at least by 1966, and probably 1965, as I already said.
> It is probably where the 32-bit convention started, but decidedly not IEEE format.
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