| Commercial Operating System (COS) | |
|---|---|
| Developer | Digital Equipment Corporation |
| Initial release | 1972[1] |
| Available in | English |
| Supported platforms | PDP-8,PDP-11,DECmate II |
| License | Proprietary |
| Preceded by | MS/8 |
Commercial Operating System (COS) is a discontinued family ofoperating systems fromDigital Equipment Corporation.[2]
They supported the use ofDIBOL, a programming language combining features ofBASIC,FORTRAN andCOBOL.[3] COS also supportedIBM RPG (Report Program Generator).[1]
The Commercial Operating System was implemented to run on hardware from the PDP-8[4] and PDP-11 families.
COS-310 was developed for the PDP-8 to provide an operating environment forDIBOL. A COS-310 system was purchased as a package which included a desk,VT52 VDT (Video Display Tube), and a pair of eight inch floppy drives. It could optionally be purchased with one or more 2.5 MB removable media hard drives. COS-310 was one of the operating systems available on theDECmate II.[a][b]
COS-350 was developed to support the PDP-11port of DIBOL, and was the focus for some vendors ofturnkey software packages.[5]
Pre-COS-350, a PDP 11/05 single-user batch-oriented implementation was released; the multi-user PDP 11/10-based COS came about 4 years later.[1] The much more powerful PDP-11/34 "added significant configuration flexibility and expansion capability.": p.69
Dibol Under COS: The series operates under the Commercial Operating System (COS) 350, which provides timesharing with a high-speed response.
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