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IBM Future Systems: The Mainframe Rewrite Too Big to Finish

IBM's Future Systems project tried to replace the System/370 world with a radically new architecture and software environment, but migration risk, performance concerns, and too many simultaneous breakthroughs made the corporate-wide rewrite untenable.

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