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EUMEL, an acronym for Extendable Multi User Microprocessor ELAN System and also known as L2, is an operating system Jochen Liedtke created in 1979 at Bielefeld University, originally as a runtime environment for the ELAN programming language. It first ran on mainframes such as the Siemens BS2000 and later expanded to the Zilog Z80 and Z8000, the Motorola 68000 and the Intel 8086, supporting languages including BASIC, DYNAMO, LISP and Prolog along with application software such as the REMIS relational database and a word processor. More than 2,000 EUMEL systems were installed, mostly in schools, universities and legal practices, and its persistent architecture used a fixpoint and restart mechanism so that a crash or power loss cost users only minutes of work before resuming from the last saved state. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Discontinued 1
Year
1979 2
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1. Wikipedia: Eumel
  • Wikipedia Eumel infobox discontinued=Yes
  • In Field: Operating Systems, Lead sentence
    EUMEL (pronounced oimel for Extendable Multi User Microprocessor ELAN System and also known as L2 for Liedtke 2) is an operating system (OS) which began as a runtime system (environment) for the programming language ELAN. It was created in 1979 by Jochen Liedt
  • Invented By: Jochen Liedtke, Infobox, developer field
    Jochen Liedtke
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2. Wikidata: Eumel
  • Wikidata Q1797809, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q1797809 P571 (inception)
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