below On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Will Senn <will.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm reading a book (among many such books) that is entitled, "A Primer on > PASCAL," by Richard Conway, David Gries, and E. C. Zimmerman, written in > 1976 with a Foreward by Niklaus Wirth. The book has a lot of PASCAL > examples that run just fine on my PDP-11/70 with RT-11 or RSX-11, or... you > get the idea. However, the book has some programs that claim to take > advantage of the CDC OS and utilize a card reader. The author refers to the > operating system as "The CDC OS" as if it were singular and obvious, but > doesn't speak of hardware beyond the card reader. I looked and found > references to Control Data Corporation's COS, SCOPE, MACE, KRONOS, and > NOS, but have no idea if these are "The CDC OS"... > Yup and they have a N different code sets -- its a real mess. > > Does anyone know what "The CDC OS" would refer to and what hardware it > would run on (hopefully simulated). > IIRC, Cyber 72 running NOS, I believe was what he used.
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