Googling for "multisolutions inc. s1 operating system" turned up several mentions from ComputerWorld, an S1 operating system pin at Etsy, plus this blog post:
http://mathisliberalarts.blogspot.com/2012/03/?m=0 > One day at Burroughs I received a phone call from a recruiter. Usually I > don’t give these headhunters the time of day, but this one mentioned a > startup company. It was either intrigue or boredom but I decided to > interview. Then I was hired to write compilers which I had been doing for > about six years at Burroughs. > > The company was a small startup in Lawrenceville, NJ. The CTO was a > charismatic engineer named Robert Knight. The CEO was a wealthy businessman, > Charles Lombardo, who provided most of the company’s funding. Somehow, maybe > because Lombardo’s wife worked on Wall Street, our tiny company, > MultiSolutions Inc., actually went public. Even though they actually did not > have a product or a revenue stream. > > The product, under development, was an Operating System called S1. The > marketing department used the slogan “Unix is a dinosaur, MS-DOS is a toy.” > This was in 1984 and it was true that there was an opportunity for a new OS > in the marketplace. > > To kill any suspense, the OS never caught on. ... > Paul > On Feb 28, 2020, at 10:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 19:20:06 -0600 (CST) > From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Anyone heard of the S1 Operating System > > Reading through the April 85 issue of Byte, I came across a reference to the > "S1 Operating System." In Jerry Pournelle's column on pg 361 he talks about > this mysterious OS. Here is a small excerpt: > Robert Knight. formerly of > Princeton's computer laboratories. is > an old fan of my books and columns > as well as the creator of SI. which he > had running on an IBM Instruments > CS9000 > > Anyway, my Googling turned up nothing on the OS, although I did find a Robert > Knight at Princeton, but no information on stuff he's done. I will likely > email him to ask about it, but wanted to ask here first if anyone knows > anything about it. > > Thanks, > Will
