17 Sep
2015
17 Sep
'15
9:04 a.m.
On Sep 16, 2015, at 6:19 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at
sydex.com> wrote:
On 09/16/2015 12:23 PM, Sean Caron wrote:
They may not run those, but those certainly have been preserved as part of the
"controlfreaks" effort. COS, Scope, MACE, Kronos, NOS, NOS/BE -- all those have
been run on the DtCyber emulator. In fact, a copy of a production PLATO system, on NOS
2.8.7, has been on the Internet for a decade now (on DtCyber).
paul
And I actually got to play with NOS ... many
years after the fact ...
never thought I'd see that! What the cray-cyber.org guys are doing is
remarkable.
Sad that they don't have any early software. In the beginning there was COS
(Chippewa Operating System), followed by SCOPE (which doesn't really describe a
specific OS, but more on that later). On the 6000, both were essentially PP-oriented,
leaving the CP to do the real work.