MS/8
Operating system for the PDP-8
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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.[1][2]
| MS/8 | |
|---|---|
| Developer | Richard F. Lary |
| Working state | Discontinued |
| Initial release | 1966 |
| Available in | English |
| Supported platforms | PDP-8 |
| Succeeded by | P?S/8, COS-310 |
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."[3] 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.
