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Cito de la Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]:

In 1965 IBM started an effort to build their own machine that would be even faster than the 6600, the ASCC. 200 people were sent to the west coast to run the project away from corporate prodding, at which point nothing happened. ASCC was eventually cancelled in 1969 after producing nothing, and 190 of the 200 employees stayed on the coast rather than suffer being recalled to IBM in New York.

But in the short term IBM also went ahead and announced a new version of the famed System/360 that would be just as fast as the 6600. This machine didn't exist, but that didn't stop sales of the 6600 drying up while people waited for its release – a tactic known today as FUD and more commonly associated with Microsoft. Norris didn't take this lying down, and a year later filed an anti-trust suit against IBM, eventually winning over 600 million dollars and picking up several parts of IBM's empire in the process.

La información de la Wikipedia concuerda con lo narrado en el libro The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer [amazon.com].

No obstante, en mi anterior mensaje me he expresado mal, y lo que IBM anunció (y después canceló) no fue la gama S/360 en sí, sino un nuevo modelo de la gama S/360 capaz de batir a la CDC 6600, máquina que no existía en su momento y que nunca llegó a existir.