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Top 10 Influential Mainframe Designers
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on 1.9.12 @ 06:40 am
The mainframe is a wonderful invention, but who are the people behind it over the years
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They have dominated the market and after 50 years continue to develop the mainframe, taking the
virtual mainframe
to the next level.
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J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly
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Inventors of the ENIAC but also one of the first mainframes - the UNIVAC 1
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Thomas Johnson Watson Jr.
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Inventor of the 701; the first in the 700 series.
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Gene Amdahl
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The chief architect of the System/360. This is still dubbed the Godfather of the mainframe industry.
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Roger Bowler
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Created Hercules, an Open Source software implementation of mainframe architectures. It's the world's smallest mainframe.
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Gerald D. Prothro
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Managed and oversaw the development of the 3090 system.
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John Haanstra
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Executive of the 1401 system.
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Edson de Castro
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The chief engineer who designed the initial version of the PDP-8
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Seymour Cray
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Designed the CDC 6600.
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Stephen Dunwell
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Project manager for the Stretch (IBM 7030).
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