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On 2018-03-18, Richard Thiebaud <thieba...@aol.com> wrote:

> 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?

I never got to work with the 1100 series, but I suspect those names
are latecomers.  I don't know what its OS was originally called, though.

There were a couple of variants on the 9300's operating system.  It was
originally called NCOS (Non-Concurrent Operating System, there was also
a COS on tape-based systems which allowed for symbionts to do spooling).
OS-500 was NCOS with a DCT-500 terminal attached as a console.  (The
DCT-500 was a 30-cps hard-copy terminal intended as a Teletype replacement.)
Apparently there was also OS-100, which used a Uniscope 100 CRT terminal.
These variants never really caught on; when you have a maximum of 32K of
memory, it's hard to add interesting features and still have enough memory
left for your programs.

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