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]
Developer | Richard F. Lary |
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Working state | Discontinued |
Initial release | 1966 |
Available in | English |
Platforms | PDP-8 |
Succeeded by | P?S/8, COS-310 |
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.
System 8-466A RL Monitor System (WCFMPG Version)
Author: Richard Lary, Mario DeNobili, et al. Submitted by: Stanley Rabinowitz, Digital Equipment Corp., Maynard