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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
Hardware Supported: IBM 701w78
Kernel: proprietary
POSIX: not supported
Graphics Engine: none
User Interface (graphic): none
Disabled support: none
Internet Services: none
Other:
Steel, T.B., Jr. Operating Systems. Datamation, Vol. 10, No. 5, May 1964, pp. 26-28.
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