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From: Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:54:42 -0700
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Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> wrote:
> In article <gJEJO.198174$kxD8.85229@fx11.iad>,
> Charlie Gibbs  <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2024-09-27, R Daneel Olivaw <Danny@hyperspace.vogon.gov> wrote:
>> 
>>> Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>> 
>>>> And on the operating system side, I know of
>>>> OS/2, OS/3, OS/4, OS/7, and OS/9.
>>> 
>>> OS1100 bzw. OS2200.
>> 
>> Right, forgot about them.  Univac was a big contributor to
>> OS/<number>; in addition to 3, 4, and 7 above, they also
>> had OS-100 and OS-500 for variations of their 9300 operating
>> system that hung a Unicscope 100 or a DCT-500 terminal
>> onto the machine.  These were seldom used - we didn't need
>> much help filling out the 32K of memory available to us.
>> 
>> Is there an OS/5 or an OS/6 so we can complete the set
>> of one-digit numbers?
> 
> c1792 on the Modular One computer:
> 
> 
> 	OS6
> 
>   An Operating Systems for a small computing system
> 
>   Joseph Stoy and Christopher Strachey
> 
> 			       ABSTRACT
>        Part I is a general description of a simple operatirg
>   system, which runs  in a virtual machine (implemented on    a real
>   machine by an interpreter).      OS6 copes with only one user at a
>   time, and is not a multiprogramming system:  many major problews
>   associated with large operating systems  have therefore been avoided
>   or considerably simplified.    It nevertheless has several features
>   of interest,  including the fact that it is written almost entirely in
>   the high-level language BCPL.      The most important single  feature,
>   however, is the hierarchical nature of its control    structure, which
>   avoids the need for a special job-control language.
> 
>        Part II covers the facilities for input/output, and the
>   handling of files on the disc.      The input/output system uses a very
>   general form of stream; the filing system is designed to have a clear
>   and logical structure.
> 
> 

I think what was stuck in my mind was IBM OS/6 (Office System/6), a word
processor.

-- 
Pete