This group gathers operating systems built for mainframes, minicomputers and other large institutional or business computers, including IBM System/360 family systems DOS/360 and BOS/360 and its early batch systems IBSYS and BESYS, the Digital Equipment Corporation minicomputer systems RSTS/E, RSX-11 and OpenVMS, the Data General minicomputer system RDOS and its Convergent Technologies counterpart, the Control Data Corporation systems SCOPE, Kronos and NOS, the Prime Computer system PRIMOS, the HP Multi-Programming Executive, the Apollo Computer workstation system Domain/OS, the ICL system GEORGE, IBM Time Sharing System TSS, the SHARE Operating System user cooperative, the University of Manchester Atlas Supervisor, the earliest operating system for a commercial computer GM-NAA I/O, and the Cray Operating System for supercomputers. Their shared identity is serving large, expensive, institutionally owned computers from the mainframe and minicomputer era, as distinct from a university research prototype built to explore an idea, which belongs to Research and Academic Operating Systems.
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1. Wikipedia: Mainframe computer
Wikimedia FoundationMainframe computer, lead section, 1960s architecture sentenceQuote, Mainframe computer, lead section, 1960s architecture sentence
Most large-scale computer-system architectures were established in the 1960s, but they continue to evolve.
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Has Member: Universal Time-Sharing System, built by Xerox Data Systems for the Sigma series of computersView the Source Xerox Operating System (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Xerox Operating System, operating system for the XDS Sigma series of computers developed by CIIView the Source Edos (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Edos, discontinued operating system based on IBM mainframe DOS/360View the Source Chippewa Operating System (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Chippewa Operating System, developed by Control Data Corporation in 1964 for the CDC 6600View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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