MS/8

MS/8
DeveloperRichard F. Lary
Working stateDiscontinued
Initial release1966; 60 years ago (1966)
Available inEnglish
Supported platformsPDP-8
Succeeded byP?S/8, COS-310

MS/8 or The RL Monitor System is a discontinued computer operating system developed for the Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-8 in 1966 by Richard F. Lary.

History

RL Monitor System, as it was initially called, was developed on a 4K (12-bit) PDP-8 with "a Teletype that had a paper tape reader and punch and .. a single DECtape." It was a disk oriented system, faster than its predecessor, the PDP-8 4K Disk Monitor System, with tricks to make it run quickly on DECtape based systems.

Still named RL, it was submitted to DECUS in 1970.

MS/8 was replaced by P?S/8 and COS-310.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "5/8-1.1a BPAK - A Binary Input/Output Package for the PDP-5". BitSavers. Archived from the original on 2019-09-24. Retrieved 2020-09-30. System 8-466A RL Monitor System (WCFMPG Version)
  2. ↑ "RL Monitor System". Archived from the original on 2023-10-05. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  3. ↑ Tom Burniece (August 14, 2015). "Interview of Richard (Richie) Lary, part 1" (PDF). ComputerHistory.org.
  4. ↑ "PDP-a" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-01-17. Retrieved 2020-09-30. Author: Richard Lary, Mario DeNobili, et al. Submitted by: Stanley Rabinowitz, Digital Equipment Corp., Maynard
  5. ↑ yes, with a question-mark!