ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

IBM System/360 architecture

Okay kiddo, let's talk about the IBM System/360 architecture. Picture a big building with lots and lots of rooms. Each room is like a different part of a computer.

The IBM System/360 is a computer system made up of a bunch of these rooms, or parts. There are different rooms for things like processing data, storing information, and communicating with other computers.

Now, imagine you have a bunch of Legos. Each Lego block is like a piece of the computer. You can snap them together in different ways to build different things.

The IBM System/360 is like a big bucket of Legos, but instead of building a castle or a spaceship, you build a computer. You snap the Legos together to create the different rooms, or parts, of the computer.

But the coolest thing about the IBM System/360 is that you can snap in different pieces whenever you need to, so you can make your computer bigger or stronger or faster depending on what you need it to do.

So, in summary, the IBM System/360 is like a big bucket of Legos that you snap together to build a computer that can do different things, and you can add more Legos when you need to make it even better.