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  • ...Extended''') was a [[multi-user]] [[time-sharing|time-shared]] [[operating system]] developed by [[Digital Equipment Corporation]] ("DEC") for the [[PDP-11]] ...non-commercial use) of a PDP-11 [[simulator]] for the [[IBM-compatible PC|IBM-PC]], as well as image copies of disk drives of RSTS which exist on the Int
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  • ...([[RK02/03 disk drive|RK02]]-[[RK05 disk drive|RK05]]), all based on the [[IBM 2315]] drive and pack. First, there is an image of a [[DEC indicator panel]] (image [http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/pdp11/jpg/panels/RK11B.jpg here]) which seems to be f
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  • | transfer rate = 512 Kbytes/sec<br>3.9 usec/word (peak) ...on|DEC]]. They used an [[IBM 5440]] type pack, as used on the [[IBM System/3]]. Up to 4 drives may be attached to a single [[device controller|controlle
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  • | tracks = 203 (nominally 200 plus 3 spares; many systems used all 203, as reliability was high) ...by DEC, but not manufactured by them), which in turn were inspired by the IBM 2315 drive and pack.
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  • ..., developed over time by millions of volunteers, Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat, [[IBM]] as well as various commercial vendors. ...], early [[Macintosh|Macs]], a partial port to the [[VAX]] and a port to [[System/390]] as well as various [[SGI]] and [[Sun Microsystems]] workstations and
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  • | name = System/360 <!-- | logic type = [[Standard Modular System|SMS]] cards using alloy-junction [[transistor]]s -->
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  • | creator = IBM | current version = MVS 3.8j (freely available)
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  • [[Image:QuickWin.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Dungeon 2.5.6 on Windows 3.0]] ...tps://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/source/dungeon-3.2A.tar.Z dungeon-3.2A.tar.Z]
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  • Part 3: The New Zork Times, vol. 4 no. 3, Summer 1985 <br> .... ITS was designed to make software development easy. The designers of the system assumed that it would have a small, knowledgeable, friendly group of users,
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  • ...[[Unix Seventh Edition|v7]], [[UNIX System III|SYSIII]], and later [[UNIX System V|SYSV]]. ...eloped on a DEC Virtual Address Extension (VAX) running the Virtual Memory System (VMS) and a PDP-11 running UNIX V7, albeit now using Microsoft's own in-hou
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  • ...together the next generation [[operating system]] for the [[IBM AT]] and [[IBM PS/2|PS/2]] machines. ...he development tools should be a revenue stream, and needless to say, the $3,000 SDK was '''NOT''' a big seller. Instead, the industry worked around OS
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  • ...[[Microsoft]] for not only being the bundled [[operating system]] on the [[IBM-PC]] but also being available to the other clone [[OEM]]'s of the time. Microsoft had sold [[IBM]] on the idea of MS-DOS when talks for [[CP/M]] had broken down. At the tim
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  • IBM doomed OS/2 2.0, in terms of a successful desktop system, almost from that so many folks at IBM didn't. I speak here not of the faceless low
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  • ...ng System''' (usually '''ITS''') was an early [[time-sharing]] [[operating system]]; initially for the [[PDP-6]], and later for [[PDP-10]]'s. It was develope ...s one of the first OS's connected to the [[ARPANET]], and it was on an ITS system that the first versions of [[Emacs]], [[MACLISP]], [[Scheme]], and [[CLU]]
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  • '''Qemu''' is a machine emulator & system virtualizer. *[[i386-softmmu]] IBM PC emulator
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  • ...bit MS-DOS & Windows binaries with an improved 32bit OS/2 API & Windowing system. Microsoft hired Dave Cutler away from [[Digital]] to help with the implem ...DOS CD-ROM Extensions 2.0, COBOL Optimizing Compiler 3.0, Flight Simulator 3.0 for PC, PowerPoint 2.01 for Mac, Learning DOS 2.0, Stat Pack 1.0
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  • This is the NT 3.1 HCL retreived from ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-docs/hcl/HC Microsoft Windows NT Version 3.1
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  • This is the HCL for [[Windows NT 3.5]] Microsoft Windows NT Version 3.5
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  • A UNIX™ Operating System for the [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] [[VAX-11/780]] Computer ...780 computer manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation. The VAX-11/780 system provides 32-bit addresses and data. It uses the same input/output devices a
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  • ...3. Drives -Which ones to steal. " link 3} The A2090 series cards have two interfaces on board. An ST506 (IBM
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  • This was a port of System V r2 to the [[i286]] cpu. The material is dated 1987. The system was distributed in various sections.
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  • | name = IBM 5170/IBM AT | manufacturer = [[IBM]]
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  • The '''System/370''' continued the tradition of the prior [[System/360]] by expanding the [[instruction set]], and adding [[hardware]] support The System/370 was supplanted by the [[S/390]].
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  • ...ndorsed by Real Programmers is call-by-value-return, as implemented in the IBM/370 FORTRAN G and H compilers. Real programmers don't need abstract concept ...grammer? CP/M? God forbid -- CP/M, after all, is basically a toy operating system. Even little old ladies and grade school students can understand and use CP
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  • of a small yet powerful operating system. -- Thompson & Ritchie, "The UNIX Time-Sharing System", CACM 1974.
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  • | caption = Logging into an AIX system | creator = [[IBM]]
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  • | architecture = [[IBM 386]] # The second is the code of the system
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  • | architecture = [[IBM 386]] ...x 0.11 also started the hooks for the i387 math emulator, while the [[file system]] was still restricted to only [[Minix]] file systems.
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  • | architecture = [[IBM 386]] subset of System V and POSIX functionality. LINUX has been written
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  • | architecture = [[IBM 386]] subset of System V and POSIX functionality. LINUX has been written
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  • | architecture = [[IBM 386]] I downloaded a copy from [http://oldlinux.org/Linux.old/Linux-0.01/sources/system/linux-0.01.tar.Z here].
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  • NetBSD is a new system, based heavily on 386BSD 0.1, with of the changes from the upcoming 0.2.3 patch kit have been
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  • release which corresponds to Mac OS X 10.3 (Darwin is the core PowerPC-based Macintosh computers supported by Mac OS X 10.3,
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  • providing a broadly accessible system, aberrations, such as require this system to teach, even though it might be to
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  • FreeBSD is a freely available, full source 4.3 (+4.4 enhancements) BSD FreeBSD does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus.
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  • ...''' (sometimes referred to as a '''ST-1144A''') was a [[disk drive]] for [[IBM-compatible PC]]s from [[Seagate]]. S T 1 1 4 4 A - 3 2 SEAGATE
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  • | caption = Logging into a UnixWare 7.1.3 system | architecture = [[IBM-PC]] theoretically portable
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  • "IBM Operating System/2 Standard Edition","IBM Announce",04-2-1987 The IBM Operating System/2(TM) Standard Edition
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  • 1. MS OS/2 (Computer operating system) I. Title. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 MLML 8 9 0 9 8
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  • Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP UNIX* System V and 4.1C BSD
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  • ...‎]] at the electrical level, with an [[Non Return to Zero|NRZ]] encoding system; the closely related descendant [[EIA RS-422 serial line interface]] uses [ ...PC's therefore standardized on DE-9 connectors, following the lead of the IBM PC-AT, which first used them. DE-9 connectors are now officially part of th
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  • [[Image:rx01.jpg|250px|thumb|left|An RX01 floppy drive system]] ...pies.) Data was protected with a [[CRC]], compatible with that used by the IBM 3740.
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  • '''DECtape''' was a low-cost, low-capacity tape [[magnetic storage]] system intended for storage of small data entities (e.g. programs). It used 3/4-inch wide [[magnetic tape]] on small 4-inch reels, formatted before use i
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  • ...led or removed in a drive, in a process called '''mounting''' a pack. So a system could have multiple packs (for backup purposes, or for infrequently needed In the late 1960's, IBM developed a new form of disk, the [[floppy disk]], which used instead a 'pl
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  • | name = IBM 709 | operating system = SOS, IBSYS, IBJOB
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  • ...ystem''' (usually '''CTSS''', for short) was a ground-breaking [[operating system]], the first [[time-sharing]] OS to be used in service. ...], the [[batch operating system]] previously run on the [[IBM 7090]] and [[IBM 7094]] [[mainframe]] computers on which CTSS ran.
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  • ...r supplied power to the computer, which had the keyboard and a cassette or 3" floppy disk drive built in. ...LocoScript word-processor. The other side booted into CP/M-Plus (CP/M-80 3.0). Initial models shipped with a dedicated dot matrix printer and later m
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  • They made their own operating system, [[FOONEX]], for their machines. It was based on [[TENEX]]. ...esign. It was built at [[III]] for use in a optical character recognition system. It was bought by Omnibus for generating computer graphics.
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  • ...604 Electronic Calculating Punch''' was [[International Business Machines|IBM]]'s first major foray into [[electronic]] computing. (It was preceded by th ...'school' IBM in manufacturing and supporting electronic gear; all previous IBM products had been electro-mechanical.
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  • IBM licensed [[Microsoft]]'s [[BASIC]] for the [[IBM PC]] despite already having its own version for the company's mainframes. D == IBM Cassette BASIC ==
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  • ...System V, Release 3''' was released in 1987. The final version was Release 3.2 in 1988. * Remote File System (RFS)
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  • ...successors. The history of how PC-DOS came to be the principal [[Operating System]] for the PC is a story that has been told many times and a I will supply l ...splays on boot as The IBM Personal Computer DOS Version 1.00 (C) Copyright IBM Corp 1981. Unlike the 1.00 release it does not ask for the date and this is
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  • ...return point, on the top of the stack. Two special elements of [[run-time system|run-time support]], csv and cret, set up and tear down the [[stack frame]] to use 3 REGISTER variables?) It then does (of all idiotic things) a
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  • ...dd necessary features, such as [[virtual memory]], to the [[IBM System/360|System 360]]. ! Limitation !! colspan="3" style="text-align:center;" | Mode
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  • ...Tandy 1000 on the other hand was designed to be PC compatible (actually [[IBM PCjr]] compatible) from the beginning. ...mple speaker, what if they utilized the PCjr 16 color 320x200 graphics and 3 voice sound? So the Tandy 1000 was born, released in November of 1984. The
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  • | operating system = [[MS-DOS]] 3.2, [[Deskmate]] II | operating system = [[MS-DOS]] 3.3, [[Deskmate]] 3
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  • [[DEC]] used a 3-character code to uniquely designate its software products. 061 | CP/M-86/80 OPERATING SYSTEM
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  • ...' was the name adopted by two separate efforts to run [[UNIX]] on an [[IBM System/370]] class machine. ...ased approach was successful, and Bell ran the result on a number of large System/370 machines.
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  • ...rageWorks''' is a modular [[Small Computer System Interface|SCSI]] storage system manufactured and sold by [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] in the 1990s [[File:3.5 Inch SBB photo.png|thumb|150px|right|3.5" SBB]]
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  • IBM Personal System/2 Model 60 IBM Personal System/2 Model 60 combines high performance with high capacity, making it an excel
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  • ...nterface allowed a [[device controller]] to connect to a [[channel]] on an IBM [[mainframe]]; the channel could transfer data to the [[main memory]] of th ...rs; some manufacturers provided them on their machines as a way to connect IBM-compatible peripherals from OEMs to them.
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  • The configuration of the various [[Incompatible Timesharing System]] [[time-sharing]] [[PDP-10]] [[mainframe]]s at [[MIT]] (in the [[MIT Artif * IBM 2311 disk interface.
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  • ...The [[logic]] was constructed using [[vacuum tube]]s (although only about 3,000; many fewer than the [[ENIAC]]). The machine included 3 [[register]]s, each 40 bits long:
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