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This volume describes General Electric Corporation’s venture into developing second and third generation mainframe computer systems. The General Electric Corporation (GE), which began its life as the Edison Electric Co., was long involved in electrical appliances and industrial machines. It was also a founder of the Radio Corporation of America, which eventually became one of its competitors, and developed many electrical systems in order to control different types of industrial machines. Its breakthrough into computing came with its winning bid to provide the computing systems for the Electronic Recording Method of Accounting) system developed for the Bank of America by the Stanford Research Institute. The success of this project led GE to develop the GE-200 series which was the foundation for commercial timesharing. The GE-235 was selected by Dartmouth for its Dartmouth Time Sharing System (DTSS), an innovative academic time-sharing system. BASIC was developed on the GE-235 computer system under DTSS. GE enhanced it to develop its Mark II/III Time Sharing System, apparently the first commercial time sharing service in the world. GE develop the GE-300/-400 systems for industrial process control. The GE-600 series replaced the GE-200 series and demonstrated innovation in time-sharing systems. The GE-645 was selected to host Multics, which was developed by MIT. However, GE felt that it could not compete in computing against IBM, Univac, and other mainframes competitors, so it folded its tent and sold its Computer Division to Honeywell, Inc. Nevertheless, GE will be remembered for many innovations which continue to be used in modern computing systems. About the Author Stephen H. Kaisler, DSc, is an Adjunct Professor of Engineering at George Washington University, USA, where he has taught a variety of different courses over 41 years, including computer architecture, formal language theory, software paradigms, programming languages, big data and advanced analytics. He has worked for a number of small businesses in the Washington Metro Area in the areas of defense and intelligence, and as a Program Manager in Strategic Computing at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and as Director of Systems Architecture and Technical Advisor to the US Senate Sergeant at Arms. He is the author of seven books on operating systems, database systems, the Interlisp programming language, software paradigms, and big data, and four volumes in the Historical Computing Machines Series. He has published 44 technical papers and numerous reports on subjects such as enterprise architecture, cloud computing, big data and advanced analytics. Dr received a BS in Physics and MS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a DSc in Computer Science from George Washington University.

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Brand: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1527560325
Category: Books > Subjects > Computing & Internet > Computer Science > Operating Systems
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 08 December 2020
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