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This dimension names the person or organization credited with creating a computing system. Wikipedia notes that an operating system "manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs," work that is always designed and built by a named creator. Browsing this way collects every system credited to the same creator.

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1964 CE 1
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J. Presper Eckert

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John Mauchly

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Seymour Cray

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Gary Kildall

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3 entries

Konrad Zuse

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3 entries

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

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2 entries

Charles Babbage

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2 entries

Dennis Ritchie

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2 entries

Frederic C. Williams

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2 entries

Gordon Bell

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2 entries

Ken Thompson

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2 entries

Maurice Wilkes

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2 entries

Steve Wozniak

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2 entries

Tom Kilburn

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2 entries

Adam Dunkels

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1 entry

Alan Turing

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1 entry

Allen Coombs

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1 entry

Andrew Booth

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1 entry

Brian Kernighan

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1 entry

Butler W. Lampson

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1 entry

Charles P. Thacker

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Danny Hillis

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1 entry

David Cheriton

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1 entry

David Wheeler

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1 entry

Don Estridge

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Douglas Comer

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Fernando J. Corbato

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1 entry

Gene Amdahl

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1 entry

Harry Huskey

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1 entry

Howard Aiken

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1 entry

Jarkko Oikarinen

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1 entry

Jay Forrester

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1 entry

Jochen Liedtke

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1 entry

John Pinkerton

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1 entry

John Vincent Atanasoff

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1 entry

John von Neumann

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1 entry

Larry Tesler

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1 entry

Linus Torvalds

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1 entry

Margo Seltzer

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1 entry

Mark P. McCahill

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1 entry

Paul Mockapetris

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1 entry

Robert Everett

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1 entry

Robert Kahn

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1 entry

Robert Metcalfe

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1 entry

Roger Needham

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1 entry

Sanjay Ghemawat

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1 entry

Tim Berners-Lee

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1 entry

Tom Lane (computer scientist)

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1 entry

Tommy Flowers

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Vint Cerf

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Sources
1. Wikipedia: IBM System/360
WikipediaIBM System/360, lead section
Quote, IBM System/360, lead section
The IBM System/360 (S/360) is a family of computer systems announced by IBM on April 7, 1964, and delivered between 1965 and 1978.
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