DEC BATCH-11/DOS-11

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DOS-11
Closed source
Initial release1970; 54 years ago (1970)
Latest releaseV09-20C / June 1974; 49 years ago (1974-06)
PlatformsPDP-11
Default
user interface
Command-line interface
LicenseProprietary

BATCH-11/DOS-11, also known simply as DOS-11, is a discontinued operating system by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) of Maynard, Massachusetts. The first version of DOS-11 (V08-02) was released in 1970 and was the first operating system to run on the Digital PDP-11 minicomputer. DOS-11 was not known to be easy to use even in its day and became much less used in 1973 with the release of the RT-11 operating system.

Features

DOS-11 included:[1]

DOS-11 came with

PAL-11
R in overlaid form).

The DOS-11

core memory systems common to the PDP-11. A Core Image Library could be created with the CILUS (Core Image Library Update and Save) program. A MONLIBCIL typically contained the resident monitor
(RMON), the keyboard command routine, device drivers, EMT routines, the clock routines and the transient monitor.

Legacy

DOS-11 was used to compile and install early versions of the RSTS-11 and RSTS/E operating systems however it is an ancestor to the RSX-11 family of operating systems.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ "dec :: pdp11 :: dos-batch :: DEC-11-ASDB-D PAL-11R Assembler Programmers Manual May71". 1 May 1971. Retrieved 31 December 2018 – via Internet Archive.