OS/8

OS/8
DeveloperDigital Equipment Corporation
Working stateDiscontinued
Source modelClosed source
Initial release1971; 53 years ago (1971)
PlatformsPDP-8
Default
user interface
Concise Command Language (CCL)
(Command-line interface)
LicenseProprietary
Preceded byPS/8

OS/8 is the primary operating system used on the Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-8 minicomputer.

PDP-8 operating systems which precede OS/8 include:

Other/related DEC operating systems are OS/78, OS/278,[3] and OS/12. The latter is a virtually identical version of OS/8, and runs on Digital's PDP-12 computer.

Digital released OS/8 images for non-commercial purposes[4] which can be emulated through SIMH.

  1. ^ for Richard Lary, who also was involved with OS/8 and RTS8. "What is a PDP 8?". Archived from the original on 2004-08-25.
  2. ^ "Disk Monitor System" (PDF). BitSavers.
  3. ^ COMPUTERWORLD, June 1984: "OS/278 is available for $74." "Decmate II 08/278 Digital Equipment Corp. has introduced a new version of its OS/8 ..." Computerworld. June 11, 1984. p. 130.
  4. ^ File: /Licenses/os8_license.txt in os8swre.tar.Z


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