GM-NAA I/O
| Developer | General Motors, North American Aviation |
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| Working state | Historic |
| Initial release | 1956 |
| Marketing target | Batch processing |
| Available in | English |
| Platforms | IBM 704 |
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DOS/360 and successors (1966)
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The GM-NAA I/O input/output system of General Motors and North American Aviation was the first operating system for the IBM 704 computer.[1][2]
It was created in 1956 by Robert L. Patrick of General Motors Research and Owen Mock of North American Aviation.[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 (batch processing). It was formed of shared routines to the programs that provided common access to the input/output devices. Some version of the system was used in about forty 704 installations.[1]
See also
- SHARE Operating System, an operating system based on GM-NAA I/O.
- Timeline of operating systems
- System monitor
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Timeline of Computer History: 1956: Software". Computer History Museum. Retrieved 2007-09-04.
- ↑ Ryckman, George F.; , "17. The IBM 701 Computer at the General Motors Research Laboratories," Annals of the History of Computing , vol.5, no.2, pp.210-212, April–June 1983 doi: 10.1109/MAHC.1983.10026 URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4640507&isnumber=4640446
External references
- Operating Systems at Conception by Robert L. Patrick
- The World’s First Computer Operating System in millosh's blog talks about the General Motors OS and GM-NAA I/O