17 Sep
2015
17 Sep
'15
6:06 p.m.
On Sep 17, 2015, at 7:17 PM, Rich Alderson <RichA
at LivingComputerMuseum.org> wrote:
From: Eric Smith
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2015 12:48 AM
Clearly that would be silly. Not to mention the RT-11 operating system, which could boot
and run with just DECtape. Or the famous THE operating system, which boots from paper
tape (though it pages to drum at runtime).
paul
On Twitter, @hotelzululima suggested Motorola
MIKBUG, introduced in
1974, but IMO it's a monitor, not an operating system.
So the PDP-6 monitor, which booted from DECtape but had no other dependency
on that medium, was not an operating system? It provided multiple timeshared
jobs, so was not a single-program system.
TOS/360 was not an operating system?
Do only disk-oriented operating systems deserve that sobriquet?