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Atlas Supervisor

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The Atlas Supervisor was the program the University of Manchester wrote to manage processing resources on its Atlas Computer, first running in 1962, letting the machine handle multiple tasks and user programs concurrently and providing virtual memory. It is considered by many historians to be the first recognizable modern operating system, and the computer scientist Per Brinch Hansen called it the most significant breakthrough in the history of operating systems. 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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License
Proprietary (Closed Source) 1
Status
Status
Discontinued 1
Year
1962 1
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Operating Systems, Fields
Source Wikipedia: Atlas Supervisor

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1. Wikipedia: Atlas Supervisor
  • Infobox: license
    Proprietary
  • Infobox: released
    1962
  • In Field: Operating Systems, Lead sentence
    Atlas Supervisor was the program which managed the allocation of processing resources of Manchester University's Atlas Computer so that the machine was able to act on many tasks and user programs concurrently.
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Wikidata: Atlas Supervisor
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