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Organization

I have two issues with the way the article is currently organized:

  1. IBM System/360 Model 85#Advanced/special features begins with 'The system console is L-shaped: ...', which is certainly worth mentioning but is neither advanced nor special. I'm not sure whether to change the heading or to create a separate section.
  2. The reference to the 360/25 has a redundant mention of the 85 announcement date but no mention of the 25 announcement date. Would 'The Model 85 has both Read-only and Writeable Control Storage[4]:p.14 (it is the second System/360 to have writeable control storage; the IBM System/360 Model 25, announced earlier in the same month as the 360/85, is the first to have writeable control storage.' be better? Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 15:55, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

IBM's first commercially available computer with cache memory

As far as I know, it is the first commercially available by anyone. Is it not? Gah4 (talk) 01:54, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]