MOS operating system - Revision history

Jnc: /* External links */ +Extended Memory MOS

2024-01-25T14:36:56Z

‎External links: +Extended Memory MOS

Jnc: /* External links */ +another IEN about MOS

2022-10-22T05:04:32Z

‎External links: +another IEN about MOS

Jnc: /* See also */ +C Gateway

2022-03-23T23:01:52Z

‎See also: +C Gateway

Jnc: /* External links */ +source

2022-01-19T14:25:44Z

‎External links: +source

Jnc: typo

2022-01-19T12:33:18Z

typo

Jnc: Also the x86

2021-12-13T14:14:35Z

Also the x86

Jnc: /* External links */ +Terminal Interface Unit Notebook: Volume 2 - Software Documentation

2021-11-14T20:50:00Z

‎External links: +Terminal Interface Unit Notebook: Volume 2 - Software Documentation

Jnc: inspired by ELF?

2021-11-12T07:13:10Z

inspired by ELF?

Jnc: TIU was first

2021-11-06T12:26:45Z

TIU was first

Jnc: /* See also */ +initial apps

2021-11-06T12:23:05Z

‎See also: +initial apps

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 * [https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien136.txt Memory Management Extensions to the SRI Micro Operating Systemfor PDP-11/23/34/35/40] (IEN-136)
 * [https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien164.txt CMOS System Overview] (IEN-164)
 [[Category: Non-DEC Operating Systems]]
 [[Category: PDP-11 Operating Systems]]
 [[Category: Real-Time Operating Systems]]

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 * [http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/mos/src/ MOS operating system] - source code
 * [http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/mos/docs/tiunv2.lpt Terminal Interface Unit Notebook: Volume 2 - Software Documentation] - information on building system loads, as well as MOS documentation
-* [https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien164.txt CMOS System Overview]
+* [https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien136.txt Memory Management Extensions to the SRI Micro Operating Systemfor PDP-11/23/34/35/40] (IEN-136)
 [[Category: Non-DEC Operating Systems]]
 [[Category: PDP-11 Operating Systems]]
 [[Category: Real-Time Operating Systems]]

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 * [[Port Expander‎]]
 * [[ANTS terminal system]]
 * [[MINITS]]

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 ==External links==
 * [http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/mos/docs/tiunv2.lpt Terminal Interface Unit Notebook: Volume 2 - Software Documentation] - information on building system loads, as well as MOS documentation
 * [https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien164.txt CMOS System Overview]

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 It supported [[process]]es (but not [[preemption]], or creation/termination of processes - all processes were created at system [[linking]] time), queued inter-process messages ('signals'), asynchronous I/O, and allocation and freeing of [[main memory]]; it had no [[file system]] or other support for [[secondary storage]].
-It appears to have been inspired by the [[ELF operating system]] (which also has 'Device Control Tables' and 'I/O Request Blocks', which look similar in their details to the MOS ones, and uses signals to notify of asynchronous I/O operation completion), but it is much simpler than ELF; for instance, all MOS code necessarily shares a singe address space, and MOS processes are static, unlike ELF.
+It appears to have been inspired by the [[ELF operating system]] (which also has 'Device Control Tables' and 'I/O Request Blocks', which look similar in their details to the MOS ones, and uses signals to notify of asynchronous I/O operation completion), but it is much simpler than ELF; for instance, all MOS code necessarily shares a single address space, and MOS processes are static, unlike ELF.
 The original version was written in [[MACRO-11]], the [[assembly language]] for the PDP-11; it was later re-written at least three times in [[C programming language|C]]: at [[BBN]], at UCL, and at Proteon. The first and last versions were [[portable]]; the latter also ran on the [[Motorola MC68000|MC68000]], the [[Intel x86]], and the [[AMD29000]].

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 It appears to have been inspired by the [[ELF operating system]] (which also has 'Device Control Tables' and 'I/O Request Blocks', which look similar in their details to the MOS ones, and uses signals to notify of asynchronous I/O operation completion), but it is much simpler than ELF; for instance, all MOS code necessarily shares a singe address space, and MOS processes are static, unlike ELF.
-The original version was written in [[MACRO-11]], the [[assembly language]] for the PDP-11; it was later re-written at least three times in [[C programming language|C]]: at [[BBN]], at UCL, and at Proteon. The first and last versions were [[portable]]; the latter also ran on the [[Motorola MC68000|MC68000]] and [[AMD29000]].
+The original version was written in [[MACRO-11]], the [[assembly language]] for the PDP-11; it was later re-written at least three times in [[C programming language|C]]: at [[BBN]], at UCL, and at Proteon. The first and last versions were [[portable]]; the latter also ran on the [[Motorola MC68000|MC68000]], the [[Intel x86]], and the [[AMD29000]].
 All were somewhat extended from the original; the first two fairly extensively, the latter only to make use of [[up-call]]s in the I/O system, and to support [[pseudo-terminal]]s.

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	==External links==		==External links==

		+	* [http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/mos/docs/tiunv2.lpt Terminal Interface Unit Notebook: Volume 2 - Software Documentation] - information on building system loads, as well as MOS documentation
	* [https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien164.txt CMOS System Overview]		* [https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien164.txt CMOS System Overview]

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-The '''MOS operating system''' (formally the 'Micro Operating System', but informally 'Mathis' Operating System', after the creator, Jim Mathis of [[SRI International|SRI]]) was a cooperative [[multi-tasking]] [[operating system]], originally for the [[PDP-11]], used for a number of [[packet switch]]es and similar network applications. It was almost certainly written as part of the [[Terminal Interface Unit]] or [[Port Expander]] projects (likely the former), the first two [[application]]s which used it.
+The '''MOS operating system''' (formally the 'Micro Operating System', but informally 'Mathis' Operating System', after the creator, Jim Mathis of [[SRI International|SRI]]) was a cooperative [[real-time]] [[multi-tasking]] [[operating system]], originally for the [[PDP-11]], used for a number of [[packet switch]]es and similar network applications. It was initially written as part of the [[Terminal Interface Unit]] project, the first [[application]] which used it.
 It supported [[process]]es (but not [[preemption]], or creation/termination of processes - all processes were created at system [[linking]] time), queued inter-process messages, asynchronous I/O, and allocation and freeing of [[main memory]]; it had no [[file system]] or other support for [[secondary storage]].
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 ==See also==
 * [[Port Expander‎]]
 * [[ANTS terminal system]]