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Guy Harris (talk | contribs) Remove from the "Limitations" section material that also appears in the lead. The remaining section is about OS support; move it after all the hardware stuff, and rename it "Operating systems'. Provide a reference for the DOS and OS support; it doesn't have the exact quotes, so just say it supported both DOS/360 and OS/360 |
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==Virtual memory==
The initially announced System/370 Models 155 and 165 systems did not support virtual memory.
In 1972 an upgrade option was announced "to provide the hardware necessary to operate in a virtual memory mode."<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Computerworld|date=August 15, 1973|page=17|title=First IBM DAT Box Installed|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T3qky0Z-gc0C&pg=PA17}}</ref> Unlike the [[IBM System/370 Model 145]], which as early as June 1971 included the hardware necessary to support virtual memory, and for which a [[microcode]] update from a floppy disk, adding support for virtual memory, was announced in 1972, the Model 155 and Model 165 needed expensive hardware additions - $200,000 for the 155 and $400,000 for the 165 - to add virtual memory capability. An upgraded 155 was known as an IBM System/370 Model 155-II.<ref>{{cite journal | author = A. Padegs | title = System/360 and Beyond | journal = IBM Journal of Research & Development | volume = 25 | issue = 5 | pages = 377–390 |date=September 1981 | publisher = IBM | doi = 10.1147/rd.255.0377}} – tables include model characteristics (Table 1) and announcement/shipment dates (Table 2). The S/370-155-II and -165-II are listed under the former but not the latter, because the upgraded systems were not formally announced as separate models. The "System/370 Advanced Function" announcement, including the -158 and -168, was the main public event.</ref>
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