Article 67 of comp.sys.cdc: Path: matra.meer.net!navio.com!news1.best.com!news.nacamar.de!news.apfel.de!news.maxwell.syr.edu!howland.erols.net!news2.digex.net!not-for-mail From: Fred S Long Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.sys.cdc Subject: Re: Reminiscing About the Cyber 6600 Date: Sat, 03 May 1997 10:00:05 -0700 Organization: DIGEX, Inc. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <336B6F15.45EF@cpcug.org> References: <01bc567d$25cfb000$7a59e1cc@default> <01bc574e$31a45490$98dc86cd@ntpeh> <336d1093.3819345@news.uni-c.dk> Reply-To: TheLongs@cpcug.org NNTP-Posting-Host: cpcug.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win16; I) Xref: matra.meer.net comp.lang.fortran:50197 comp.sys.cdc:67 Peter Bjoern wrote: > "phil hystad" wrote: > >But, this is where the name operating system was NOS/BE was created > >merely by changing the copyright statement in the SCOPE 3.4.5 > >system. And, accordingly, NOS/VE came from Kronos V2.1 (I believe). > > No, No, You're meaning NOS. > NOS/VE has nothing to do with Kronos at all. > NOS/VE is (was) as completely new system that first came > out in 1984. > By many considered the best of all systems. > regards > peter --------- I believe the first operating system delivered with the CDC6600 was SIPROS. When CDC abandoned it on Valentine's Day 1966[?] they chose the maintenance system CHOPS. Kronos was developed on the 3x00 series of systems [my wife was part of that project in 1969]. I thot the 6600 was always CDC6600 and the Cyber name came with the CDC7600 follow-on.