iBet uBet web content aggregator. Adding the entire web to your favor.
iBet uBet web content aggregator. Adding the entire web to your favor.



Link to original content: https://doi.org/10.1145/363790.363806
GEORGE 3—A general purpose time sharing and operating system | Communications of the ACM skip to main content
article
Free access

GEORGE 3—A general purpose time sharing and operating system

Published: 01 November 1967 Publication History

Abstract

An Operating System is described which will run on a wide variety of configurations of the I.C.T. 1900, and can handle a large number of online console users while at the same time running several offline (background) jobs. The system is not oriented towards either mode and can be either a batch processing system (such as the ATLAS Supervisor, IBSYS, or GECOS), or a multiaccess system (resembling, to the user, CTSS or MULTICS), or both simultaneously, depending on the installation, which can adjust the Schedulers.
Both online users and offline jobs use a common Command Language. The system includes a Multilevel device-independent File Store.

References

[1]
CRISMAN, P. A. (ED.) The Compatible Time-Sharing System- A Programmer's Guide, 2nd Ed. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1965.
[2]
DALEY, R. C., AND NEUMANN, P. G. A General-Purpose File System for Secondary Storage. Proc. AFIPS 1965 Fall Joint Comput. Conf., Vol. 27, Pt 1, pp. 213-229.
[3]
MOORE, B. J. The GEORGE 3 file store. (Unpublished).
[4]
KILBURN, T., PAYNE, R. B., AND HOWARTH, D. J. The ATLAS supervisor. Proc. AFIPS 1961 Eastern Joint Comput. Conf., Vol. 20, p. 279.
[5]
CORBATO, F. J., AND VYSSOTSKY, V. A. Introduction and overview of the MULTICS system. Proc. AFIPS 1965 Fall Joint Comput Conf., Vol. 27, Pt. 1, pp. 185-196.

Cited By

View all

Recommendations

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 10, Issue 11
Nov. 1967
62 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/363790
Issue’s Table of Contents
Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 01 November 1967
Published in CACM Volume 10, Issue 11

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Check for updates

Qualifiers

  • Article

Contributors

Other Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

  • Downloads (Last 12 months)76
  • Downloads (Last 6 weeks)14
Reflects downloads up to 26 Nov 2024

Other Metrics

Citations

Cited By

View all

View Options

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

PDF

eReader

View online with eReader.

eReader

Login options

Full Access

Media

Figures

Other

Tables

Share

Share

Share this Publication link

Share on social media