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On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 05:20:00 +0000, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> 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.

Also Strachey's OS6 (no slash or hyphen), later renamed to OSpub, 
although the papers on it call it OS6:

 http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/publications/publication3726-abstract.html
 http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/publications/publication5955-abstract.html

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