I'm pretty sure it was intended as a PLC or more precisely a PDP11 competitor as others stated. I am reading an excellent book "The Small Computer Concept" which kind of awe inspiring lays out the need for the Series/1, the ISA, and monitor functions in 400 pages.
On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 10:29 AM Jon Elson via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > On 08/02/2019 10:04 PM, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote: > > Was IBM Series/1 for process control?Ed# > > > I don't think it was necessarily DESIGNED for process > control, it was a decent 16-bit mini. > But, it did get USED a lot for that application. They were > also used as interfaces from the IBM channel architecture to > serial ports, where the 360/370's were hurt very badly by > interrupt load. > > Jon