[inforoots] Unknown CDC Operating System

[Ed Thelen]

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.cdc/msg/8f50c8af284c2d41?q=control+data+++cahlander+mace&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF
-8&rnum=3

Dave Cahlander and Greg Mansfield got into those things -
    a lot !!
They were part of Special Systems,
   but Special Systems stuck with SCOPE
      - probably much to Dave's and Greg's annoyance.

Good luck - it was a while back  ;-))

--Ed Thelen


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From: "Hans Neukom" <hans.neukom at hispeed.ch>
To: "Open Discussion about the history of the Information Age" <inforoots at computerhistory.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 6:45 AM
Subject: [inforoots] Unknown CDC Operating System


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> Another question to this group of computer historians: Has anybody heard of
> an operating system for CDC 6600 and possibly CDC 7600 systems called TOOS?
> This acronym appears in project papers of CDC from the early seventies. I
> could not find any trace of such a system on the web or in the literature.
> TOOS most likely stands for something like "Transaction oriented Operating
> System" because the project it relates to was a large on-line transction
> system that never went into operations.
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> Any idea from anyone?
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