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name: Amdahl, Gene

sex: male
lived: (1922– )

biography: Computer engineer, born in Flandreau, South Dakota, USA. Working for International Business Machines (IBM) at Poughkeepsie, NY, he helped design the IBM 704 in the 1950s and the S/360 series of computers in the early 1960s. In the 1970s he ran Amdahl Corp, then the largest manufacturer of IBM-compatible computers. He founded Trilogy (1980) to build large computers.