Editing IBM 7030 Stretch (section)

==Technical impact==
While the IBM 7030 was not considered successful, it spawned many technologies incorporated in future machines that were highly successful. The ''[[Standard Modular System]]'' (SMS) [[transistor]] logic was the basis for the [[IBM 7090]] line of scientific computers, the [[IBM 7070]] and [[IBM 7080|7080]] business computers, the [[IBM 7040]] and [[IBM 1400 series|IBM 1400]] lines, and the [[IBM 1620]] small scientific computer; the 7030 used about {{formatnum:170000}} transistors. The [[IBM 7302]] Model I Core Storage units were also used in the IBM 7090, IBM 7070 and IBM 7080. [[Computer multitasking|Multiprogramming]], memory protection, generalized interrupts, the [[eight-bit byte]] for I/O{{efn|While Stretch had instructions with [[variable byte size]]s, no subsequent processor from [[IBM]] did. However, [[Burroughs Corporation|Burroughs]], [[Control Data Corporation|CDC]], [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]], [[General Electric|GE]], [[RCA]], [[UNIVAC]] and their successors had machines with multiple byte sizes; Burroughs, CDC and DEC had machines that supported any size from 1 to the [[word (computer architecture)|word]] length.
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were all concepts later incorporated in the [[IBM System/360]] line of computers as well as most later [[central processing unit]]s (CPU).

Stephen Dunwell, the project manager who became a scapegoat when Stretch failed commercially, pointed out soon after the phenomenally successful 1964 launch of System/360 that most of its core concepts were pioneered by Stretch.<ref name="SimmonsElsberry1988p160">{{Cite book |last1=Simmons |first1=William W. |author-link=William W. Simmons (executive) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=adfxAAAAMAAJ |title=Inside IBM: the Watson years: A Personal Memoir |last2=Elsberry |first2=Richard B. |publisher=Dorrance |year=1988 |isbn=978-0805931167 |location=Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, US |page=[https://archive.org/details/insideibmwatsony0000simm/page/160 160] |lccn=88184688 |oclc=18532202 |ol=2124603M <!-- edition of OL4717500W -->}} ''The memoir of a senior IBM executive, giving his recollections of his and IBM's experience from World War II into the 1970s.''</ref> By 1966, he had received an apology and been made an IBM Fellow, a high honor that carried with it resources and authority to pursue one's desired research.<ref name="SimmonsElsberry1988p160"/>

[[Instruction pipelining]], [[instruction prefetch|prefetch]] and decoding, and [[memory interleaving]] were used in later supercomputer designs such as the IBM System/360 Models [[IBM System/360 Model 91|91]], [[IBM System/360 Model 91|95]] and [[IBM System/360 Model 195|195]], and the [[IBM 3090]] series as well as computers from other manufacturers. {{As of|2021}}, these techniques are still used in most advanced microprocessors, starting with the 1990s generation that included the Intel [[Pentium]] and the Motorola/IBM [[PowerPC]], as well as in many embedded microprocessors and microcontrollers from various manufacturers.