MOS (operating system)

MOS signifies 'Mobile Operating System' (Russian: Моби́льная Операцио́нная Систе́ма, МОС). It was a Soviet clone of Unix in the 1980s.[1]

Mobile Operating System (MOS)
OS familyUnix
Working stateHistoric
PlatformsSM EVM, ES EVM, Elbrus, PDP-11 clones
LicenseProprietary

Overview

This operating system was commonly found on SM EVM minicomputers; it was also ported to ES EVM and Elbrus. MOS was also used in high-end PDP-11 clones.

There have been several modifications of MOS named MNOS, DEMOS, INMOS (operating system) etc.

See also

References

  1. Balodis, Rihards; et al. "History of Nordic Computing 3" IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 2011, Volume 350/2011, 453-461 "The common operating system was MOS, a clone of UNIX."
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