Creating System/360, the first modular computer family
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark
Contributors: Clark, Kim B.
Edition: Rev.
Series: Working paper / Division of Research, Harvard Business School -- 97-039; Working paper (Harvard Business School. Division of Research) -- 97-039R
Publisher: Division of Research, Harvard Business School
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Boston]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 27
Description: In this chapter and the next, the evolutionary paths of the first modular family of computer systems is described. Focus is on how System/360 was created. This story is an extremely well documented instance of an actual modularization; as such, it provides us with important insights as to the kinds of knowledge and actions that underlie the splitting of a large, complex design.
Notes: Revision of: The value of modularity : splitting and substitution. 1996.

Draft chapter 7, January 6, 1999.

"This working paper is a chapter of the forthcoming book, Design rules: the power of modularity (MIT Press 1999)."

Includes bibliographical references.