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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 10:54:37 -0700
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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?
> 

Without looking, OS/6 sounds familiar.

-- 
Pete