9PAC
Encyclopedia
9PAC is a common abbreviation for 709 PACkage. It was a report generator
for the IBM 7090
, developed in 1959.
Report Generator
Broadly speaking a Report Generator is an application whose purpose it is to take data from a source such as an XML data feed and then use it to produce a document in a format which satisfies a particular human readership....
for the IBM 7090
IBM 7090
The IBM 7090 was a second-generation transistorized version of the earlier IBM 709 vacuum tube mainframe computers and was designed for "large-scale scientific and technological applications". The 7090 was the third member of the IBM 700/7000 series scientific computers. The first 7090 installation...
, developed in 1959.
Further reading
- Sammet 1969, p.314. "IBM 7090 Prog Sys, SHARE 7090 9PAC Part I: Intro and Gen Princs", IBM J28-6166, White Plains, 1961.