Commercial Operating System
| Developer | Digital Equipment Corporation |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 1972[1] |
| Available in | English |
| Platforms | PDP-8, PDP-11, DECmate II |
| License | Proprietary |
| Preceded by | MS/8 |
Commercial Operating System (COS) is a discontinued family of operating systems from Digital Equipment Corporation.[2]
They supported the use of DIBOL, a programming language combining features of BASIC, FORTRAN and COBOL.[3] COS also supported IBM RPG (Report Program Generator).[1]
Implementations
The Commercial Operating System was implemented to run on hardware from the PDP-8[4] and PDP-11 families.
COS-310
COS-310 was developed for the PDP-8 to provide an operating environment for DIBOL. A COS-310 system was purchased as a package which included a desk, VT52 VDT (Video Display Tube), and a pair of eight inch floppy drives. It could optionally be purchased with one or more 2.5 MB removable media hard drives. COS-310 was one of the operating systems available on the DECmate II.[a][b]
COS-350
COS-350 was developed to support the PDP-11 port of DIBOL, and was the focus for some vendors of turnkey software packages.[5]
Pre-COS-350, a PDP 11/05 single-user batch-oriented implementation was released; the multi-user PDP 11/10-based COS came about 4 years later.[1] The much more powerful PDP-11/34 "added significant configuration flexibility and expansion capability.": p.69
See also
Notes
References
- ^ a b c DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION - Nineteen Fifty-Seven To The Present (PDF). Digital Equipment Corporation. 1978.
- ^ Binh Nguyen. Linux Dictionary. p. 424., citing "QUECID".
- ^ "Time-Sharing Uses Emphasized For DEC Datasystem 350 Series". Computerworld. July 30, 1975. p. 19.
Dibol Under COS: The series operates under the Commercial Operating System (COS) 350, which provides timesharing with a high-speed response.
- ^ PDP 8/e Small Computer Handbook. Digital Equipment Corporation. 1973. pp. 2-19 thru 2-20.
- ^ "Time-Sharing Uses Emphasized For DEC Datasystem 350 Series". Computerworld. July 30, 1975. p. 19.
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