OS/8
Primary operating system used in the DEC PDP-8 minicomputer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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OS/8 is the primary operating system used on the Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-8 minicomputer.
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Developer | Digital Equipment Corporation |
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Working state | Discontinued |
Source model | Closed source |
Initial release | 1971; 53 years ago (1971) |
Platforms | PDP-8 |
Default user interface | Concise Command Language (CCL) (Command-line interface) |
License | Proprietary |
Preceded by | PS/8 |
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PDP-8 operating systems which precede OS/8 include:
- R-L Monitor,[1] also referred to as MS/8.
- P?S/8,[lower-alpha 1] requiring only 4K of memory.
- PDP-8 4K Disk Monitor System[2]
- PS/8 ("Programming System/8"), requiring 8K. This is what became OS/8 in 1971.
Other/related DEC operating systems are OS/78, OS/278,[3] and OS/12. The latter is a virtually identical version of OS/8, and runs on Digital's PDP-12 computer.
Digital released OS/8 images for non-commercial purposes[4] which can be emulated through SIMH.