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Comment Re:Why not OS/360? (Score 1) 215

You are quite correct about how the 360 was named however, there never was an OS/370 or OS/380.
360,370,390 refer to the hardware architecture.
The IBM operating systems blood lines went somthing like this.

Hardware: 360 > 370 > 30xx > 43xx > 9370, 9000 > Enterprise server/Gx > z900

These are mentioned in sucession because they have the same heritage.

Operating Systems: OS/360 > OS/MFT > OS/MVT > OS/VS1 > OS/VS2 > OS/MVS > MVS/XA > MVS/ESA > OS/390 > z/OS

TOS > PCP > DOS > DOS/VS > DOS/VSE > VSE/AF > VSE/SP > VSE/ESA

VM > VM/370 > VM/SP > VM/XA > VM/ESA > z/VM

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