GM-NAA I/O
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The GM-NAA I/O input/output system of General Motors and North American Aviation was the first operating system in the history of computer science.[1]
It was created in 1956 by Bob Patrick of General Motors and Owen Mock of North American Aviation for the IBM 704 computer.[1] It was based on a system monitor created in 1955 by programmers of General Motors for its IBM 701.
The main function of GM-NAA I/O was to automatically execute a new program once the one that was being executed had finished. It was formed of shared routines to the programs that provided common access to the of input/output devices.
[edit] See also
- SHARE Operating System, an operating system based on GM-NAA I/O.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Timeline of Computer History: 1956: Software. Computer History Museum. Retrieved on 2007-09-04.
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