> On Sep 17, 2015, at 7:17 PM, Rich Alderson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> From: Eric Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2015 12:48 AM
>
>> On Twitter, @hotelzululima suggested Motorola MIKBUG, introduced in
>> 1974, but IMO it's a monitor, not an operating system.
>
> So the PDP-6 monitor, which booted from DECtape but had no other dependency
> on that medium, was not an operating system? It provided multiple timeshared
> jobs, so was not a single-program system.
>
> TOS/360 was not an operating system?
>
> Do only disk-oriented operating systems deserve that sobriquet?
Clearly that would be silly. Not to mention the RT-11 operating system, which
could boot and run with just DECtape. Or the famous THE operating system,
which boots from paper tape (though it pages to drum at runtime).
paul
