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Posted on 08/18/2014 3:27:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
” we are on univac which runs same os as the IBM dos “
I have no idea what you did that night but I do know that the Univac did not use the IBM dos as an operating system.
lol me too
yes it was the same jcl. i worked for the guy who helped write it.
dlbl
“yes it was the same jcl. i worked for the guy who helped write it.”
You originally posted DOS, now you are referring to JCL. Not the same thing.
In September 1971, the RCA Corporation announced that it was abandoning the computer industry and Sperry acquired RCA’s Computer division. RCA had marketed the Spectra 70 Series (70/15, 70/25, 70/35, 70/45, 70/46, 70/55, 70/60, 70/61) that were compatible with The IBM System/360 series and the RCA Series (RCA 2, 3, 6, 7) competing against the IBM System/370. These systems all ran RCA’s real memory operating systems, DOS and TDOS. RCA’s virtual memory systems, the Spectra 70/46 and 70/61 and the RCA 3 and 7, could also run their Virtual Memory Operating System, VMOS. VMOS was originally named TSOS (Time Sharing Operating System), but was renamed in order to expand the system beyond the time sharing market. TSOS was the first mainframe, demand paging, virtual memory operating system on the market. At the time, IBM was in the process of transforming OS/360 to a virtual memory system through the OS/VS1 and OS/VS2 (SVS) operating systems, on the way to the subsequent release of MVS.
the RCA os was compatible which means it looked and worked the same as IBM DOS.
The Univac Series 90 was a family of mainframe class computer systems from UNIVAC first introduced in 1973.[1] The low end family members included the 90/25, 90/30 and 90/40 that ran the OS/3 operating system. The intermediate members of the family were the 90/60 and 90/70, while the 90/80 was the high end system. The 90/60 through 90/80 systems all ran the Univac’s virtual memory operating system, VS/9.
The Series 90 systems were the replacement for the UNIVAC 9000 series of low end, mainframe systems marketed by Sperry Univac during the 1960s. The 9000 series systems were byte-addressable machines with an instruction set that was compatible with the IBM System/360. The family included the 9200, 9300, 9400, and 9480 systems; the 9400 and 9480 ran a real memory operating system called OS/4.[2] As Sperry moved into the 1970s, they expanded the 9000 family with the introduction of the 9700 system in 1971. They were also developing a new real memory operating system for the 9700 called OS/7.
In September 1971, the RCA Corporation announced that it was abandoning the computer industry and Sperry acquired RCA’s Computer division. RCA had marketed the Spectra 70 Series (70/15, 70/25, 70/35, 70/45, 70/46, 70/55, 70/60, 70/61) that were compatible with The IBM System/360 series and the RCA Series (RCA 2, 3, 6, 7) competing against the IBM System/370. These systems all ran RCA’s real memory operating systems, DOS and TDOS. RCA’s virtual memory systems, the Spectra 70/46 and 70/61 and the RCA 3 and 7, could also run their Virtual Memory Operating System, VMOS. VMOS was originally named TSOS (Time Sharing Operating System), but was renamed in order to expand the system beyond the time sharing market. TSOS was the first mainframe, demand paging, virtual memory operating system on the market. At the time, IBM was in the process of transforming OS/360 to a virtual memory system through the OS/VS1 and OS/VS2 (SVS) operating systems, on the way to the subsequent release of MVS.
In January 1972, Sperry officially took over the RCA base, offering the Spectra 70 and RCA Series computers as the UNIVAC Series 70.[3] Sperry would ultimately rethink the 9700 and killed OS/7. They redesigned the 9700, added virtual memory and renamed the processor the 90/70. VMOS was modified for the new hardware platform and was named VS/9. The 90/70 was then modified to produce the 90/60, a slower version of the 90/70 that would be sold at a lower price. In 1974, Sperry would also replace the low end 9000 systems with the low end Series 90 Family— the 90/25, 90/30 and 90/40 running the OS/3 operating system.
A number of the RCA customers continued with Sperry, and the 90/60 and 90/70 would provide an upgrade path for the customers with 70/45, 70/46, RCA 2 and 3 systems. In 1976, Sperry added the 90/80 at the top end of the Series 90 Family, based on an RCA design, providing an upgrade path for the 70/60, 70/61, RCA 6 and 7 systems.
The RCA base was very profitable for Sperry and Sperry was able to put together a string of 40 quarters of profit. Sperry was also offered their own 1100 family of systems and the 1100/60 provided an entry level system for the Series 90 customer base. Around 1982-83, Sperry announced they would cap the Series 90 Systems and would decommit the VS/9 operating system to concentrate on the 1100 series. After this announcement, Sperry would stumble on the revenue side ending their run of profitable quarters, resulting in some downsizing. The Series 90 Systems suffered from pressure from the IBM 4300 series systems that offered superior price performance and may have induced Sperry to concentrate on the 1100. In a short time Digital Equipment Corporation, with their flagship VAX line of midrange computers would pass Sperry in terms of total revenue to become the number two U.S. computer manufacturer after IBM.
EDITED to make it support your post!
it wikipedia don’t get your panties twisted.
did you work for univac or rca. my friend/boss worked on the project i think as a director and said it was IBM DOS. just sayin.
Please source your post.
Your Post: In September 1971, the RCA Corporation announced that it was abandoning the computer industry and Sperry acquired RCA’s Computer division. RCA had marketed the Spectra 70 Series (70/15, 70/25, 70/35, 70/45, 70/46, 70/55, 70/60, 70/61) that were compatible with The IBM System/360 series and the RCA Series (RCA 2, 3, 6, 7) competing against the IBM System/370.
Wikipedi: RCA marketed the Spectra 70 Series (models 15, 25, 35, 45, 46, 55, 60 and 61) that were hardware, but not software, compatible with IBM’s System/360 series, and the RCA Series (RCA 2, 3, 6, 7) competing against the IBM System/370.[17]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA
Have a carpenter make you a bed under your desk. Worked well for George!
The advantage of modalert (generic name: modafinil) is it does little to your heart rate, small motor skills, blood pressure. Also, no euphoria. In short, it is like amphetamines, but without the amphetamine problems.
It is called “provigil” in the USA and is like $800 for 30 pills.
Fortunately, there is a related drug, called “adrafinil” that your liver breaks it down into modafinil and works exactly the same. (Because it is processed by your liver, you should not drink with it, nor should you use it for more than a couple months at a time.)
For whatever reason, adrafinil, is not a prescription drug in the USA and completely unregulated.
In fact, you can buy it on Amazon:
Both adraphinil and modafinil very well on ADHD, by the way.
All good info, and esp. the part about... not drinking alcohol with such a pro-drug (liver first pass), and to only use during short time periods.
Chemical habituation would get this noticed more. General public has no idea the kind of stressors our military ops people go through, and never a thought for what IDF is being put through year after year.
your right. i should have said similar. hey it was 30 years ago. and the nice part was we didn’t need to learn a whole new operating system, utilities, jcl, etc. to help the company out.
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