Editing IBM 8100 (section)

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{{Distinguish|IBM 8000|IBM DS8100}}
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| caption = IBM 8100 distributed system; IBM 8775 terminals on the right, 81#0 processor in the center
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}}The '''IBM 8100''' Information System, announced Oct. 3, 1978, <ref name=DM0379>{{cite magazine
|magazine=Datamation |date=March 1979 |last= Woods |first=Larry
|title= IBM's 8100: First Impressions}}</ref><ref name=IBM.Chron5>{{cite web
|url=https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/dpd50/dpd50_chronology5.htm|title=DPD chronologyl}}{{dead link|date=August 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> was at one time [[IBM]]’s principal [[distributed computing|distributed processing]] engine, providing local processing capability under two incompatible operating systems ([[IBM DPPX|DPPX]] and [[DPCX]]) and was a follow-on to the [[IBM 3790]].

The 8100, when used with the Distributed Processing Programming Executive  ('''DPPX'''), was intended to provide turnkey distributed processing capabilities in a centrally controlled and managed network.

It never saw much success—one anonymous source, according to ''[[PC Magazine]]'', called it a "boat anchor"<ref name="pcommunique19820607">{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w_OhaFDePS4C&pg=RA2-PA27 | title=PCommuniques | work=PC Magazine | date=June–July 1982 | accessdate=21 October 2013 | pages=27}}</ref>—and became moribund when host-based networks went out of fashion.
This, coupled with IBM's recognition that they had too many hardware and
software systems with similar processing power and function,
led to announcement in March 1986 that the 8100 line
would not be expanded and a new [[System/370]] compatible processor line, [[ES/9370]],
would be provided to replace it.
In March 1987, IBM announced that it intended to provide in 1989
a version of DPPX/SP that would run on the new ES/9370.
A formal announcement followed in March 1988
of DPPX/370, a version of DPPX that executed on the
ES/9370 family of processors.
DPPX/370 was made available to customers in December 1988.

'''DPCX''' (Distributed Processing Control eXecutive) was mainly to support a word processing system, ''Distributed Office Support Facility'' (DOSF).