Re: Short Vectors Versus Long Vectors

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 22:29:30 +0000, MitchAlsup1 wrote:

On the other hands, NOS did things no other OS did.....

Like what? I thought the original Cray OS was just a batch OS.

One afternoon in 1978, I was in the typing room at NCR Cambridge typing
in my 8085 ASM code; there were another 6 of us in there. NCR rented time on a CDC 7600 in San Diego.
Suddenly there was a long pause where the silent 700's made no noise;
and after 20 or so seconds, the pause ended and we proceeded along
with our work. I discovered later that the San Diego machine had taken
a hard crash and all our jobs had been picked up by the PPs and shipped
en massé to a CDC 7600 in Chicago (including the files those jobs were using.)

Then they added this Unix-like “UNICOS” thing, but that seemed to me like an interactive front-end to the batch OS.

It was, and it was written in interpreted BASIC.