27 Feb
2020
27 Feb
'20
8:20 p.m.
Reading through the April 85 issue of Byte, I came across a reference to the "S1
Operating System." In Jerry Pournelle's column on pg 361 he talks about this
mysterious OS. Here is a small excerpt:
Robert Knight. formerly of
Princeton's computer laboratories. is
an old fan of my books and columns
as well as the creator of SI. which he
had running on an IBM Instruments
CS9000
Anyway, my Googling turned up nothing on the OS, although I did find a Robert Knight at
Princeton, but no information on stuff he's done. I will likely email him to ask
about it, but wanted to ask here first if anyone knows anything about it.
Thanks,
Will
28 Feb
28 Feb
3:51 a.m.
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020, wrcooke at wrcooke.net wrote:
Reading through the April 85 issue of Byte, I came
across a reference to the "S1 Operating System." In Jerry Pournelle's
column on pg 361 he talks about this mysterious OS. Here is a small excerpt:
Robert Knight. formerly of
Princeton's computer laboratories. is
an old fan of my books and columns
as well as the creator of SI. which he
had running on an IBM Instruments
CS9000
Anyway, my Googling turned up nothing on the OS, although I did find a
Robert Knight at Princeton, but no information on stuff he's done. I
will likely email him to ask about it, but wanted to ask here first if
anyone knows anything about it.
It seems that I have a full set of floppies for the CS/9000, like
"CS9000 REAL-TIME EXECUTIVE OPERATING SYSTEM VERSION 1.1", FORTRAN, BASIC,
Assembler, Demos, Full Screen Editor.
Christian
3:04 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 6:20 PM Will Cooke via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Reading through the April 85 issue of Byte, I came
across a reference to
the "S1 Operating System." In Jerry Pournelle's
column on pg 361 he talks
about this mysterious OS.
You can find mentionings of 32-bit capable S1 in trade publications
(Computerworld, Datamation, etc.) in the mid-80s timeframe, and there is
an S1 button on eBay right now with the words "multi user, multi nodal,
multi tasking, multi processing". In a quick scan, I saw announcements of
some S1 OEM agreements, including Phillips Medical. It was a product of
Multi Solutions, a startup out of Lawrenceville, NJ, so you'd sort of
assume that some Bell Labs talent was on staff. S1 was trademarked in
1986, it expired in 1993.
3:54 p.m.
Does anyone know what processor S1 was for?
Ray
On Fri, Feb 28, 2020, 3:04 PM Peter Schow via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 6:20 PM Will Cooke via cctalk
<
cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Reading through the April 85 issue of Byte, I
came across a reference to
the "S1 Operating System." In Jerry
Pournelle's column on pg 361 he talks
about this mysterious OS.
You can find mentionings of 32-bit capable S1 in trade publications
(Computerworld, Datamation, etc.) in the mid-80s timeframe, and there is
an S1 button on eBay right now with the words "multi user, multi nodal,
multi tasking, multi processing". In a quick scan, I saw announcements of
some S1 OEM agreements, including Phillips Medical. It was a product of
Multi Solutions, a startup out of Lawrenceville, NJ, so you'd sort of
assume that some Bell Labs talent was on staff. S1 was trademarked in
1986, it expired in 1993.
29 Feb
29 Feb
5:35 a.m.
On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 21:54:44 +0100,
Ray Jewhurst via cctalk wrote:
Does anyone know what processor S1 was for?
According to the ad in Computerworld that somebody mentioned,
| PRESENTLY RUNNING ON: 68000, Z80, 8080, 8085
| By Dec. 83: 8086/88
| Jan. 84: 80186
| June 84: 80286
| Aug. 84: 16032
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