IBM 9370
| The 9370 system - three IBM 9309 racks, equipped with: compute nodes; storage modules; network modules. | |
| Also known as | ES/9370 | 
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| Developer | IBM | 
| Release date | 1986 | 
| Discontinued | 1989 | 
| Operating system | MVS, VM, VSE, AIX/370, DPPX | 
The IBM 9370 systems are "baby mainframe" midrange computers, released 1986 at the very low end of, and compatible with System/370. The media of the day, referring to the VAX systems manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), carried IBM's alleged "VAX Killer" phrase, albeit often skeptically.