MS/8

Template:Short description Template:Infobox OS MS/8 or The RL Monitor System is a discontinued computer operating system developed for the Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-8 in 1966 by Richard F. Lary.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

History

RL Monitor System, as it was initially called, was developed on a 4K (12-bit) PDP-8 with "a Teletype that had a paper tape reader and punch and .. a single DECtape."<ref name=PDP8Stuy65>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It was a disk oriented system, faster than its predecessor, the PDP-8 4K Disk Monitor System, with tricks to make it run quickly on DECtape based systems.

Still named RL, it was submitted to DECUS in 1970.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

MS/8 was replaced by P?S/8<ref>yes, with a question-mark!</ref> and COS-310.

See also

• PDP-8
• Digital Equipment Corporation

External links

• "What is a PDP-8?". PDP-8 and DECmate documentation files.