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Article #621258Re: Old word processors
From: Richard Thiebaud
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 01:46
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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