Template:Did you know nominations/Amdahl 580
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The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by Narutolovehinata5 (talk) 04:20, 9 October 2026 (UTC)
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Amdahl 580
- ... that the Amdahl 580 was the first System/360 machine to break the 100 MIPS threshold, beating IBM's own 600S by six months? Source: Datapro 1987 and 1989
- ALT1: ... that the conservative approach to the Amdahl 580 mainframe design led Gene Amdahl to quit the company he started? Source: Asprey 2000
- Reviewed:
Maury Markowitz (talk) 17:44, 28 September 2026 (UTC).
@Maury Markowitz: Article was new enough and long enough at the time of the nomination, and I didn't find any close paraphrasing. Notably, no QPQ has been done. This has to be done promptly as otherwise this will be closed as unsuccessful (it has been over two weeks since the nomination). Both hooks are problematic: the first hook is not interesting to a broad audience as it requires specialist information or technical knowledge about computing. The second hook doesn't seem to be supported by the article: the article says he was frustrated by the approach to the design's development, but the article doesn't directly say that it caused him to leave. "Gene became increasingly frustrated with their decisions" is vague if "their" refers to Fujitsu or the designers, so that has to be addressed. Finally, given the nature of the sources involved, I will need excerpts for verification. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:40, 8 October 2026 (UTC)
- Nom withdrawn. Maury Markowitz (talk) 18:22, 8 October 2026 (UTC)