PROJECT TITLE :

The IBM ACS Project

ABSTRACT:

One in every of 2 major IBM supercomputer efforts within the late 1960s, the Advanced Pc Systems (ACS) project had significantly more bold performance goals than the earlier IBM System/360 Model ninety one project, and it pioneered several features that became common decades later. Although the project was canceled, it brought many gifted engineers to California and contributed to several later developments at IBM and beyond.