IBM platform (disambiguation)

The term IBM platform could refer to any of the hardware and operating systems below.

Current

• IBM Power Systems, a family name for the merged System p and System i
• PureSystems, an IBM product line of factory pre-configured components and servers also being referred to as an "Expert Integrated System"
• IBM Z, a family name used by IBM for all of its z/Architecture mainframe computers from the Z900 on; this is the most recent architecture descended from IBM System/360
  • IBM System z, an older name for IBM Z
  • IBM z System, an older name for IBM Z
• IBM PC compatible, a machine compatible with the IBM PC and successors.
• IBM i, an operating system that runs on IBM Power Systems and IBM PureSystems, preceded by:
  • CPF, the operating system for the S/38
  • OS/400, the operating system for the AS/400
  • i5/OS, the operating system for the eServer i5
• z/OS, a 64-bit operating system for IBM mainframes; this is the most recent incarnation of OS/360 and successors

Discontinued

• IBM System i, preceded by S/38, AS/400 and eServer i5, is a line of midrange computer systems from IBM that uses the IBM i operating system
• IBM System p, formerly known as RS/6000, was IBM's RISC/UNIX-based server product line.
• IBM System/360, the predecessor to S/370
• IBM System/370, the predecessor to XA/370
• IBM Extended Architecture/370 (XA/370), the predecessor to ESA/370
• IBM Enterprise Systems Architecture/370 (ESA/370), the predecessor to IBM System/390
• IBM System/390, the predecessor to IBM System z
• IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, is the original version of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform
• Operating System/360 (OS/360), IBM's flagship operating system for S/360 and early S/370
• OS/VS1, successor to OS/360 MFT
• SVS, OS/VS2 Release 1, successor to OS/360 MVT and predecessor to MVS
• MVS/370 is a generic term for all versions of the MVS operating system prior to MVS/XA
  • OS/VS2 Release 2 through 3.8
  • MVS/System Extension (MVS/SE)
  • MVS/System Product (MVS/SP) Version 1
• MVS/XA, predecessor of MVS/ESA
• MVS/ESA, predecessor of OS/390
• OS/390, predecessor of z/OS
• Suprercomputer platforms:
  • IBM Scalable POWERparallel (1993-2000)
  • QCDOC (1998-1999)
  • IBM Blue Gene (1999-2015)
  • IBM iDataPlex (2008-2014)
  • IBM PERCS (2011)
  • IBM Intelligent Cluster, (2001-2014, now Lenovo Intelligent Cluster)

See also

• IBM System (disambiguation)