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::Agreed the [[Channel I/O]] article should be less IBM centric and would prefer expanding the article to add other "channels" to this article making the IBM Channel a specific instance. One problem might be finding an RS to combine the various "channels" in one article. A quick look at Patterson and Hennessy, "Computer Organization and Design' and Blaauw and Brooks, "Computer Architecture wasn't to helpful. Apparently today channel is a mainframe term and other than perhaps IBM it isn't much used these days.
::Shouldn't this talk be moved to the [[Channel I/O]] article and not here? [[User:Tom94022|Tom94022]] ([[User talk:Tom94022|talk]]) 00:30, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
:::There is no ''the IBM channel''; not only did channels differ among families, but even within families (except for the [[IBM 7030 Stretch|7030]]) there were distinct architectures for 6-bit and 8-bit channels, e.g., 7607 versus 7909 on the [[IBM 7094|7094]]. The reason that the discussion started here is that [[Execute Channel Program]] contains information that belongs elsewhere, e.g., [[Channel I/O#Too IBM Specific?]]. [[User:Chatul|Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul]] ([[User talk:Chatul|talk]]).
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