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'''SINTRAN III''' is a real-time, multitasking, multi-user operating system used with Norsk Data computers from 1974. Unlike its predecessors [[SINTRAN I]] and [[SINTRAN II|II]], it was entirely written by Norsk Data.

Sintran III core and file system was written in [[NORD PL]], intermediate language for Norsk Data computers.

SINTRAN was primarily a command line based operating system though there were several shells which could be installed to control the user environment more strictly, by far the most popular of which was [[USER-ENVIRONMENT]].

One of the clever features was to be able to abbreviate commands and filenames between hyphens, for example '''LIST-FILES''' when typed would ask you for several prompts including print, paging etc, you could override this using the following '''LI-FI,,,''' which would abbreviate the '''LIST-FILES''' command prompt and bypass any of the prompts. One could also refer to files in this way, say, with '''[[PED]]''' '''H-W''' which would refer to '''HELLO-WORLD:SYMB''' if this was the only file having H, any number of characters, a hyphen, a W, any number of characters, and any file ending.

In case the user wanted to actually edit a new file called '''H-W:SYMB''' (with no automatic expansion to match an existing file), the file name would have to be enclosed in double quotes, i.e. '''PED "H-W:SYMB"'''. The double quotes automatically created a new file. The other common way to create a file was to use the SINTRAN command '''CREATE-FILE'''.

The abbreviation concept saved quite a lot of keystrokes and would allow users a very nice learning curve, from complete and self-explanatory commands like LIST-ALL-FILES to L-A-F for the advanced user. (The hyphen key on Norwegian keyboards resides where the slash key does on U.S. ones.)

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[[Category:Operating Systems]] [[Category:Norsk Data Software]]

== References ==
[http://www.ndwiki.org/wiki/SINTRAN_III NDWiki: SINTRAN III]

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sintran_III Wikipedia: Sintran III]

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−	'''SINTRAN III''' is a [[real-time]], [[multi-tasking]], [[multi-user]] [[operating system]] used with Norsk Data computers from 1974. Unlike its predecessors [[SINTRAN I]] and [[SINTRAN II\|II]], it was entirely written by Norsk Data.	+	'''SINTRAN III''' is a [[real-time system\|real-time]], [[multi-tasking]], [[multi-user]] [[operating system]] used with Norsk Data computers from 1974. Unlike its predecessors [[SINTRAN I]] and [[SINTRAN II\|II]], it was entirely written by Norsk Data.

	Sintran III core and [[file system]] was written in [[NORD PL]], intermediate language for Norsk Data computers.		Sintran III core and [[file system]] was written in [[NORD PL]], intermediate language for Norsk Data computers.

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-'''SINTRAN III''' is a real-time, multitasking, multi-user operating system used with Norsk Data computers from 1974. Unlike its predecessors [[SINTRAN I]] and [[SINTRAN II|II]], it was entirely written by Norsk Data.
+'''SINTRAN III''' is a [[real-time]], [[multi-tasking]], [[multi-user]] [[operating system]] used with Norsk Data computers from 1974. Unlike its predecessors [[SINTRAN I]] and [[SINTRAN II|II]], it was entirely written by Norsk Data.
-Sintran III core and file system was written in [[NORD PL]], intermediate language for Norsk Data computers.
+Sintran III core and [[file system]] was written in [[NORD PL]], intermediate language for Norsk Data computers.
-SINTRAN was primarily a command line based operating system though there were several shells which could be installed to control the user environment more strictly, by far the most popular of which was [[USER-ENVIRONMENT]].
+SINTRAN was primarily a [[command line]] based operating system though there were several shells which could be installed to control the user environment more strictly, by far the most popular of which was [[USER-ENVIRONMENT]].
 One of the clever features was to be able to abbreviate commands and filenames between hyphens, for example '''LIST-FILES''' when typed would ask you for several prompts including print, paging etc, you could override this using the following '''LI-FI,,,''' which would abbreviate the '''LIST-FILES''' command prompt and bypass any of the prompts. One could also refer to files in this way, say, with '''[[PED]]''' '''H-W''' which would refer to '''HELLO-WORLD:SYMB''' if this was the only file having H, any number of characters, a hyphen, a W, any number of characters, and any file ending.
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 The abbreviation concept saved quite a lot of keystrokes and would allow users a very nice learning curve, from complete and self-explanatory commands like LIST-ALL-FILES to L-A-F for the advanced user. (The hyphen key on Norwegian keyboards resides where the slash key does on U.S. ones.)
 == References ==
-[http://www.ndwiki.org/wiki/SINTRAN_III NDWiki: SINTRAN III]
+* [http://www.ndwiki.org/wiki/SINTRAN_III NDWiki: SINTRAN III]
-[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sintran_III Wikipedia: Sintran III]
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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sintran_III Wikipedia: Sintran III]