24 Mar
2006
24 Mar
'06
5:02 p.m.
As long as we're on the business of firsts, what was the first operating
system to refer to mass storage devices by single letters, starting with
"A"? Does CP/M have this distinction? ISIS, IIRC used F0: and F1: for the
floppies. Think of all of the keystrokes saved! Cheers, Chuck
The first one I encountered was the MSOS (Mass Storage Operating System)
software on early Control Data 3200 systems. MSOS and MASTER were both in
the field in the late 60's. I was trained on MSOS in 1966.
A lot of ideas in CP/M and similar progenitors came from systems already in
the field for years at the time of the early micros.
Billy
24 Mar
24 Mar
5:58 p.m.
On 3/24/2006 at 2:02 PM Billy Pettit wrote:
The first one I encountered was the MSOS (Mass Storage
Operating System)
software on early Control Data 3200 systems. MSOS and MASTER were both in
the field in the late 60's. I was trained on MSOS in 1966.
A lot of ideas in CP/M and similar progenitors came from systems already
in
the field for years at the time of the early micros.
I worked on 6000 and Cyber 200 systems and didn't have much contact with
the 3000 series. It's darned interesting the amount of dissimilarity that
CDC operating systems had from one another. 6000 SCOPE and NOS was nothing
like MASTER or MSOS. 7000 SCOPE bore a cosmetic resemblance to the 6000
version, but was very different internally. Cyber 200/STAR OS was a
completely different animal from anything else. If you moved between
hardware lines, you might as well have been changing manufacturers.
Cheers,
Chuck
6:56 p.m.
In article <200603241458150668.3F10EE58 at 10.0.0.252>,
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> writes:
I worked on 6000 and Cyber 200 systems and didn't
have much contact with
the 3000 series. It's darned interesting the amount of dissimilarity that
CDC operating systems had from one another. 6000 SCOPE and NOS was nothing
like MASTER or MSOS. 7000 SCOPE bore a cosmetic resemblance to the 6000
version, but was very different internally. Cyber 200/STAR OS was a
completely different animal from anything else. If you moved between
hardware lines, you might as well have been changing manufacturers.
I remember the PLATO IV system being so vastly different from
everything else I had used that it felt like an alien world. I
remember the Tutor language as being so odd that I found it difficult
to write simple programs. I never really did quite grok it.
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