Totally, reading on the batch systems and the human was the system. He
wrote the program, operated the console, was the "disk driver" when it
came to the card readers and so forth. I remember back to linear algebra
studying codes that both sides used during the war, and it was essentially
a bunch of people with mathematical brains and sharp pencils...
PS, for a good discussion of "who built DOS" check out the chuckle (and
facts) in today's RH List under the thread "what role did Gore have in
inventing the Internet"...
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> 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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