Re: mainframe vs mini, old and slow base and bounds, Why I've Dropped In

On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 23:16:13 +0000, John Levine wrote:

In that era IBM made their own chips, so there's no way they'd have used
an Intel microprocessor.

Oh, yes, I realize that. And an 8008 wouldn't have corresponded to
what had been claimed to have been used in the System/360 model 115:
a microprocessor that could either execute microcode to implement the
System/370 instruction set, or microcode to function as a channel.
Whatever type of circuitry IBM used in the 370/115, and whether or not,
even if it took multiple chips, it could be termed a "microprocessor"
by any common definition, I do not know. I simply noted the 8008 as
showing that I was mistaken in dismissing the possibility of an IBM
designed microprocessor in the 115 out of hand; the technology did
exist at that time.
John Savard