My very first machine was a Univac 90/70 D running VS/9 at the college I 
attended. I was also a student operator there. Then there was a Burroughs 1800 
where I interned. I don't remember its OS. It also had CANDE, TSO ish editor. 

After grad, at another shop, 3 4341 - one for prod only, one for development, 
testing, and sandbox.  It would be re-ipled for each at different times.  The 
third was used for VM. The biggest boss (controller of jobs and $$) was very 
fond of VM, CMS, Script and some accounting and tracking software there, so if 
we had a hardware issue and VM went down, it would get the development box.

Linda

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> On Apr 17, 2017, at 10:17 AM, Barry Merrill <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> There was also a TOS for the 360/44 Serial Number 2 at Purdue's
> Lab for Ag Remote Sensing, in '64 or '65, and it needed four tape 
> drives because the FORTRAN compiler was on four volumes, and it
> was real fun to watch my compiles spin those tapes.
> 
> About two months later we got the Disk Drive and DOS.
> 
> Barry.
> 
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> Behalf Of Mike Schwab
> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2017 11:18 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Mainframe operating systems?
> 
> http://hercules390.996247.n3.nabble.com/What-is-the-Telpar-OS-td17474.html
> Pretty sure they got it running.  Fits on 1 track.
> 
>> On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 9:51 PM, Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I have a few more additions:
>> 
>> 1. These Japanese operating systems are probably worth mentioning:
>> 
>> Hitachi VOS3
>> Fujitsu MSP
>> Fujitsu XSP
>> 
>> VOS3 and MSP are proven forks of IBM MVS/XA (at least, and likely also 
>> MVS/ESA). XSP might be a fork of DOS/VSE. (I'm less familiar with that
>> one.) If you want to hang your hat on supported compatibility with 
>> real world IBM machines then VOS3 probably wins. As I recall, VOS3 
>> officially runs on z800 and z890 machines, at least. Hitachi built the 
>> z800 in a collaboration with IBM, and also for its own domestic sales 
>> in Japan, so that one is not a great surprise.
>> 
>> To my knowledge, Fujitsu is still nominally in the mainframe business 
>> in Japan, and their machines are basically ESA/390 machines. Both MSP 
>> and XSP remain ESA (31-bit), as far as I know. Hitachi's Japanese 
>> domestic market machines are ESA/390 machines with very modest, 
>> non-z/Architecture 64-bit extensions that VOS3 only lightly exploits.
>> 
>> Speaking of related machines, did RCA's operating systems like VMOS 
>> and TSOS ever run on IBM System/360 machines?
>> 
>> 2. TCSC's EDOS/VS and EDOS/VSE were interesting forks of DOS/VS Release 34.
>> EDOS/VS and EDOS/VSE were compatible with machines that did not have 
>> virtual storage support, including System/360 machines. That's why 
>> they enjoyed some popularity. NCSC produced a UNIX subsystem for EDOS 
>> called PWS, inspired by Coherent UNIX. I'm not sure if NCSC ever made 
>> PWS available for IBM DOS/VSE and its successors.
>> 
>> 3. I don't think anybody mentioned IBM's OS/44 and PS/44 yet. Those 
>> were operating systems for the System/360 Model 44, a scientific market 
>> machine.
>> 
>> 4. I don't think anybody mentioned VM/IX and IX/370 yet, from 
>> Interactive Systems Corporation (ISC). Those were different than 
>> AIX/370 and AIX/ESA, based on Locus Computing's work. Bell Labs had a 
>> UNIX operating system for
>> System/370 even before ISC's products, but I don't know much about that.
>> MVS OpenEdition was the successor to these efforts, although with yet 
>> another, different, much better technology base. MVS OpenEdition begat 
>> z/OS UNIX System Services.
>> 
>> 5. Boston University's VPS/VM traced its roots to McGill University's 
>> RACS (later RAX, then MUSIC/SP) operating system. As far as I know 
>> VPS/VM always ran under IBM's VM, but perhaps that wasn't required. 
>> VPS/VM and MUSIC/SP are thus "cousins," one could argue.
>> 
>> 6. TELPAR dates to the early 1970s, but I don't know much about it. I 
>> think it's available in open source (PL/360) form, though. Has anybody 
>> tried compiling and running it?
>> 
>> 7. VP/CSS, developed by National CSS, was an evolution of CP/CMS. 
>> VP/CSS had some efficiency advantages back in the 1970s.
>> 
>> 8. Some people might classify Jan Jaeger's ZZSA as an operating 
>> system, a very basic one.
>> 
>> 9. Did the UCSD p-System ever end up on System/370 or System/390 machines?
>> It ended up on almost every other processor.
>> 
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