MS/8
COS-310 |
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MS/8 or The RL Monitor System is a discontinued computer operating system developed for the Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-8 in 1966 by Richard F. Lary.[1][2]
History
RL Monitor System, as it was initially called, was developed on a 4K (12-bit) PDP-8 with "a Teletype that had a paper tape reader and punch and .. a single DECtape."[3] It was a disk oriented system, faster than its predecessor, the PDP-8 4K Disk Monitor System, with tricks to make it run quickly on DECtape based systems.
Still named RL, it was submitted to DECUS in 1970.[4]
MS/8 was replaced by
COS-310
.
See also
References
- ^ "5/8-1.1a BPAK - A Binary Input/Output Package for the PDP-5". BitSavers.
System 8-466A RL Monitor System (WCFMPG Version)
- ^ "RL Monitor System".
- ^ Tom Burniece (August 14, 2015). "Interview of Richard (Richie) Lary, part 1" (PDF). ComputerHistory.org.
- ^ "PDP-a" (PDF).
Author: Richard Lary, Mario DeNobili, et al. Submitted by: Stanley Rabinowitz, Digital Equipment Corp., Maynard
- ^ yes, with a question-mark!
External links
- "What is a PDP-8?". PDP-8 and DECmate documentation files.
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