Early computer machines
IBM launched its first commercial computer (https://ibm.biz/Bd294n), the IBM 701, in 1953, which was the most powerful high-speed electronic calculator of that time. Further progression of the technology produced mainframes, and that revolution was started in the mid-1950s (https://ibm.biz/Bd294p).
Even before co-founding Intel in 1968 with Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore espoused his theory of Moore's Law (https://intel.ly/2IY5qLU) in 1965, which states that the number of transistors incorporated in a chip will approximately double every 24 months. Exponential growth still continues to this day, though this trend may not continue for long.
IBM created its first official VM product called VM/370 in 1972 (http://www.vm.ibm.com/history ...
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