I wrote:
> On Twitter, @hotelzululima suggested Motorola MIKBUG, introduced in
> 1974, but IMO it's a monitor, not an operating system.
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Rich Alderson
wrote:
> So the PDP-6 monitor, which booted from DECtape but had no other dependency
> on that medium, was not an
On 9/17/2015 7:06 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
Clearly that would be silly. Not to mention the RT-11 operating
system, which could boot and run with just DECtape. Or the famous
THE operating system, which boots from paper tape (though it pages to
drum at runtime).
With paper tape, would it not PAS
> On Sep 17, 2015, at 7:17 PM, Rich Alderson
> wrote:
>
> From: Eric Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2015 12:48 AM
>
>> On Twitter, @hotelzululima suggested Motorola MIKBUG, introduced in
>> 1974, but IMO it's a monitor, not an operating system.
>
> So the PDP-6 monitor, which booted fro
From: Eric Smith
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2015 12:48 AM
> On Twitter, @hotelzululima suggested Motorola MIKBUG, introduced in
> 1974, but IMO it's a monitor, not an operating system.
So the PDP-6 monitor, which booted from DECtape but had no other dependency
on that medium, was not an operati
; To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: release dates of early microcomputer operating systems, incl.
> Intel ISIS
>
> On 9/15/15 4:57 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > the machine had to be configured (via connecting up computing units
> > with cables)
>
> In 1947 ENIAC was modi
> Sent: Tuesday, 15 September, 2015 2:58 PM
> To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: release dates of early microcomputer operating systems, incl.
> Intel ISIS
>
> On 9/15/15 4:57 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > the machine had to be configured (via connecting up computing units
; Subject: Re: release dates of early microcomputer operating systems, incl.
> Intel ISIS
>
> > From: Dave G4UGM
>
> > although ENIAC first ran a program it was stored as acoustic waves
>
> I don't think ENIAC used acoustic delay storage? Perhaps what you&
On 9/15/15 4:57 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
the machine had to be configured (via connecting up
computing units with cables)
In 1947 ENIAC was modifed at BRL to be a stored program computer.
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1339839
> From: Dave G4UGM
> although ENIAC first ran a program it was stored as acoustic waves
I don't think ENIAC used acoustic delay storage? Perhaps what you're thinking
of is that in the original ENIAC usage, there was no 'program' as we now
think of that term; the machine had to be configur
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 2:34 AM, Dave G4UGM wrote:
> Looks like FLEX for the 6809 was also 1976...
A neat trick since the 6809 wasn't introduced until 1978. I assume
what is really meant is FLEX for the 6800.
> BUT I don't believe ISIS became an operating system until 1976 when ISIS II
> added
> -Original Message-
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Eric Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, 15 September, 2015 8:48 AM
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
>
> Subject: release dates of early microcomputer operating systems, incl. Intel
> ISIS
>
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> On Twitter, @hotelzululima suggested Motorola MIKBUG, introduced in
> 1974, but IMO it's a monitor, not an operating system.
Given the constraints of the systems of that time (speed, memory size,
peripheral support) the line between monitor and
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> I've been searching for introduction dates of early microcomputer
> operating systems
Are you including or excluding systems like the APL-based Intel 8008 MCM/70?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCM/70
circa 1974 - I guess Zbigniew's book might
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