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== Origins ==

The S/360-67 was intended to satisfy the needs of key [[time-sharing]] customers, notably [[MIT]] (where [[Project MAC]] had become a notorious IBM sales failure), the [[University of Michigan]], [[General Motors]], [[Bell Labs]], [[Princeton University]], and the Carnegie Institute of Technology (later [[Carnegie Mellon University]]).<ref>[http://www.multicians.org/thvv/360-67.html ''The IBM 360/67 and CP/CMS''], Tom Van Vleck, 1995, 1997, 2005, 2009</ref>, and the [[Naval Postgraduate School]].<ref>[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/A_simulation_study_of_the_time-sharing_computer_system_at_the_Naval_Postgraduate_School_%28IA_simulationstudyo00good%29.pdf ''A SIMULATION STUDY OF THE TIME-SHARING COMPUTER SYSTEM AT THE NAVAL-POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL''], Ronald Maxwell Goodwin and Leo Michael Pivonka, 1969</ref>

In the mid-1960s a number of organizations were interested in offering interactive computing services using [[time-sharing]].<ref name=Topol30Years>{{cite journal|url=https://www.msu.edu/~mrr/mycomp/mts/others/feat02.htm|title=A History of MTS&mdash;30 Years of Computing Service|author=Susan Topol|journal=Information Technology Digest|volume=5|issue=5|date=May 13, 1996|publisher=University of Michigan}}</ref> At that time the work that computers could perform was limited by their lack of real memory storage capacity. When IBM introduced its [[System/360]] family of computers in the mid-1960s, it did not provide a solution for this limitation and within IBM there were conflicting views about the importance of time-sharing and the need to support it.