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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Altmark) writes: > LOL. "Simplest terms". No kidding there! > > I suggest Madnick & Donovan's "Operating Systems" textbook (McGraw-Hill, > 1974), the one everyone seemed to use back in college in the Good Ol' > Days. (Remember? Icky yellow book? Appearing in garage sales all over > town these days?) > > According to them, an operating system manages memory, processors, > devices, and information. "Information" in their model is the file > system. They discuss 3 ways of viewing the operating system: > - resource view > - process view > - Hierarchical/extended machine view > > No discussion of transaction systems or databases (those are > applications), but lots of talk about how OS/MVT and VM/370 are > structured. note stu worked at the science center in the 60s and early 70s (virtual machine and cp67 days) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech among other things, stu implemented cms script ... that supported "dot" formating commands (similar to runoff). later, at the science center, "G", "M", and "L" invented gml ... and gml tag processing was added to script (for quite awhile you could find gml tags intermixed with "dot" formating controls in script documents). http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#sgml old post mentioning document formating history http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003o.html#32 who invented the "popup" ? PDP-1 Expensive Typewriter (Peter Sampson) about 1962 CTSS RUNOFF (Jerry Saltzer) 1964-65 CMS SCRIPT (Stuart E. Madnick) 1967 CTSS BCPL runoff (Rudd Canaday, Dennis Ritchie) 1967-68 Multics BCPL runoff (Canaday, Ritchie, Ossanna) 1968 UNIX troff (J. F. Ossanna) dunno ... misc other past posts mentioning madnick http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#91 Documentation query http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#0 What good and old text formatter are there ? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001b.html#50 IBM 705 computer manual http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#54 DSRunoff; was Re: TECO Critique http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#46 ... the need for a Museum of Computer Software http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#67 Coulda, Woulda, Shoudda moments? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#73 Specifying all biz rules in relational data http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#74 Specifying all biz rules in relational data http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#34 Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
