Prior to WWII the term computer actually referred to a human being.
Paul Anderson
Rob Hardowa wrote:
> Totally off topic but worth a stab at it...
>
> According to "Operating Systems Concepts" by Silberschatz and Galvin it
> all depends on how you define "Operating System." The first operating
> system for computers would have been a human being. The first software
> O/S depends on your definition of O/S. As far as they are concerned, in
> Chapter 21, if you were to define O/S as meaning 'the modern idea' of an
> O/S, then it may (stress MAY) have been the Atlas O/S, designed at U
> Manchester, England in the late 50's and early 60's. Also mentioned is
> that the OS/360, with the note that "the longest line of O/S development
> is undoubtedly that for IBM computers."
>
> Also historically significant are the Turing computer in 1938, the EDSAC
> in 1949 (another Turing with 1st library of subroutines), 1952 first
> commercial compiler, 1954 has MATH_MATIC the 1st compiled language for the
> UNIVAC I, Fortran developed at IBM, the first Assembler at IBM, 1957 DECs
> Information Processing Language, 1959 COBOL, 1962 Time Sharing, 1965 Basic.
>
> Anyway, a historical rant.....grab the book, it's great...
>
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> > Dear All
> > What was the 1st invented OS in the world and when ?
> >
> > Thanks
> > selim
>
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