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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. | ||
Latest revision as of 22:47, 5 November 2018
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 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.)
