Re: architecture, The Design of Design

Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> schrieb:

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> writes:

Well, yes, but another 360 innovation was the whole idea of computer
architecture, as well as the term.  It was the first time that the
programmer's view of the computer was described independently of any
implementation.

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I don't buy it.  An architecture is just a description of system
behavior, and surely there were descriptions of system behavior
before System/360.

Indeed, but "independently of any implementation" is the key here.
Brooks wrote that programmers viewed the "Principle of Operations"
as *the* S/360, rather than the individual models.