#OTD in #ComputingHistory 1964, IBM launched the revolutionary System/360 mainframe architecture. Named “360” to reflect its goal of serving all types of customers, it transformed business computing and became one of the most successful tech projects of its time. Fred Brooks, the Turing Award-winning computer scientist who led the System/360 project, also coined the term “computer architecture” to describe the structure and behavior of computing systems—distinct from their hardware implementatio