[millosh's blog] GM-NAA I/O (History of operating systems)

[Milos Rancic]

It is widely accepted that GM-NAA I/O was the first operating system. It is designed by Bob Patrick of General Motors and Owen Mock of North American Aviation in 1956.

Operating system was installed on IBM 704 (on the photo) and it's main function were batch jobs processing.

(There is no relevant documentation about this operating system on the Internet and if you know something about it, please write the comment or write somewhere and give a link in the comment. Existing references only mention information from the first two paragraphs of this text.)

References

• Software history in the Library of the Oracle ThinkQuest Education Foundation.
• George Gray, Unisys History Newsletter. Volume 1, Number 3, March 1993 (revised 1999), Exec II.
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Posted By Milos Rancic to millosh's blog at 1/07/2007 05:27:00 PM