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On 03/18/2018 07:51 PM, Peter Flass wrote:
> Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> 
> EXEC, starting with just EXEC, I believe, and advancing to EXEC II ... up
> to EXEC 8.
> 
I believe that Exec II and Exec 8 were different OS's.