In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/20/2005
at 06:43 AM, Allan Scherr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>The way Spooling was done on the pre-S/360 systems, to my
>recollection, was with a second computer.
No; that's not SPOOL. There was standard SPOOL software for the 1410,
704x, 707x, 7080 and 709x. There was also SPOOL software for the 7030,
but I don't know that any of its software could be considered
standard.
>The 1410 did I/O for the 7010, for instance.
Not in any shop that I saw.
>The first general multiprogramming capabilities that I recall were in
>some of the IBM special purpose systems in the early 60's like the
>SABRE airline reservations system or the so called "defense
>calculator" project that kept track of radar threats.
Other companies were ahead of IBM, e.g., Burroughs, GE, Ferranti,
Honeywell, RCA.
>The operating systems I used in the 50's (SOS, FMS,
>IBYSYS) had no multiprogramming.
But IBM had nultiprogramming on the 7030.
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