IBM Basic Programming Support/360, known as BPS and originally called Special Support, was a set of standalone programs for IBM System/360 mainframes with a minimum of 8 KiB of memory. IBM's General Products Division in Endicott, New York developed it, and its components were announced in a series of steps between 1964 and 1965. The package supplied assemblers, input and output control, compilers, sorts and utilities, but no governing control program. It came in two versions: a strictly punched card system, and a magnetic tape system that, contrary to the stated goal, kept a small supervisor permanently resident. The languages on offer were IBM Basic Assembly Language, IBM RPG and a subset of FORTRAN IV, with tape FORTRAN needing 16 KiB. A disk counterpart, BOS/360, also needed 8 KiB. The same group went on to develop DOS/360 and TOS/360 as an interim answer when OS/360 proved too large for 16 KiB machines.
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BPS was developed by IBM's General Products Division in Endicott, New York.
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BPS components were introduced in a series of product announcements between 1964 and 1965.
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Lead, second paragraph [invented-by-company]
BPS was developed by IBM's General Products Division in Endicott, New York.
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was a set of standalone programs for System/360 mainframes
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