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Re: Old word processors

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From: Richard Thiebaud
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 01:46
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On 03/17/2018 07:23 AM, Bob Eager wrote:
> 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
> 
How about Unisys OS/1100 and OS/2200?
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