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    “A very early operating system developed by General Motors for the IBM 701. Unnamed.w78 Professor Jim Mooney’s list of Early Operating Systems

    General Motors Operating System, created by General Motors Research Laboratories in early 1956 for thieir IBM 701 mainframe is generally considered to be the first batch operating system and possibly the first “real” operating system.

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Intended purpose

server/mainframe: earlyw78

desktop/workstation: not appropriate

handheld: not appropriate

real time: not appropriate

Kind of OS: proprietary

Release Date: 1955w78 or early 1956

Current Version: not current; historical operating systemw78

Cost:

Hardware Supported: IBM 701w78

Maximum Number of Processors:

Number of bits:

Memory map:

Kernel: proprietary

POSIX: not supported

Peripherals:

File Systems Supported:

Other Systems Emulated:

Graphics Engine: none

Text Command Shell:

User Interface (graphic): none

Graphic Command Shell: none

Disabled support: none

Internet Services: none

Application Programs:

Security:

Other:

references

    Steel, T.B., Jr. Operating Systems. Datamation, Vol. 10, No. 5, May 1964, pp. 26-28.

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