Tech Timeline Debates
Discussions center on disputing or correcting the historical timelines of when various software features, systems, hardware, and technologies were first invented, released, or available, with users citing specific years, Wikipedia, papers, and archives from the 1950s to 1980s.
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Good news: the software you describe exists since 1985.
Wikipedia said 1980 was when it was publicly available, so that's what I went with.
It says right there on the wikipedia enttry it was introduced in 1959, which was before AS/400.
They have had this technology since the 70's
There is a computer chronicles on archive.org where they say this. I don’t remember the year but early 80s I would say.
The software is running since 1977.
Pedantry: Tymshare and IPSA and no doubt many others predate 1969.
What year are we talking? I get that is a pretty big use case now, but back then (mid 1980s?) was it also the case?
Version history would indicate that first versions are from mid-80s.
Yup, 1978 https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/800248.807380