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On 2018-03-17, roger...@gmail.com <roger...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday, March 16, 2018 at 1:27:45 PM UTC-7, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
>
>> I know that in offices before that era type writers were used, even if an
>> IBM Selectric could ease the work. But they were hardware. They hadn't a
>> display (monitor) to edit text and only when done print it out.
>> 
>> Still I wonder if big machines like some IBM 360/370 did not have word
>> processors... 
>
> Don't know about big iron, but the vocational center across from the high
> school I attended had an IBM Office System/6 that was a very nice machine,
> when it was working (sadly, it seemed to require a lot of maintenance). 
>
> It had a CRT display, 8" floppies, and the nicest keyboard I've ever
> used; it felt and sounded just like typing on a Selectric.
>
> They had only the one OS/6 and it didn't get used a lot. They also had
> a room full of Commodore PETs with nice keyboards and a word processor
> in ROM, which is what the students mostly used.

That just about completes the list of OS/x operating systems and/or hardware.

Here are the ones I know of:

  OS/2 (IBM PC)
  OS/3 (Univac 90/30, System 80)
  OS/4 (Univac 9400)
  OS/6 (see above)
  OS/7 (Univac 9700, stillborn)
  OS/8 (PDP-8)
  OS-9 (Motorola 6809, TRS-80 Color Computer, etc.)

Note that the slash is replaced by a hyphen in OS-9.

"I'm electric, I'm eclectic, got an IBM Selectric..."
  -- National Lampoon

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