[Simh] What is CDC OS?

[Clem Cole]

below

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Will Senn <will.senn at 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.​
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/pipermail/simh/attachments/20160216/30555e1f/attachment.html>