Amaya Toman In today's episode of our regular series called Back to the Past, we'll go back to the 48s. We will recall the launch of the Cray X-mp/2 supercomputer and the release of the OS / 1.0 XNUMX operating system.
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Cray X-mp/48 supercomputer (1985)
On December 4, 1985, the Cray X-mp/48 supercomputer began operating. The operation of the supercomputer was launched at a specialized center for devices of this type in San Diego, California. The value of the Cray X-mp/48 supercomputer was $15 million, and the machine was among the fastest computers in the world at the time. It offered a performance of 400 MFLOPS, and served as a successor to the previous model named Cray-1.
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OS/2 Operating System (1987)
On December 4, 1987, the operating system OS / 2 version 1.0 was released. It was software that was originally developed by Microsoft and IBM. led by IBM software engineer Ed Iacobucci. The OS / 2 operating system was intended to serve as the successor to the PC DOS system. The first version of the OS / 2 operating system was text-only, the graphical user interface did not come until a year later with version OS / 2 1.1. IBM did not end support for this system until the end of December 2006.
