MS/8 explained

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.^{[1] [2]}

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."^[3] 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.^[4]

MS/8 was replaced by P?S/8^[5] and COS-310.

See also

• PDP-8
• Digital Equipment Corporation

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: BitSavers . 5/8-1.1a BPAK - A Binary Input/Output Package for the PDP-5 . System 8-466A RL Monitor System (WCFMPG Version).
2. Web site: RL Monitor System.
3. Web site: ComputerHistory.org . Interview of Richard (Richie) Lary, part 1 . Tom Burniece . August 14, 2015.
4. Web site: PDP-a . Author: Richard Lary, Mario DeNobili, et al. Submitted by: Stanley Rabinowitz, Digital Equipment Corp., Maynard.
5. yes, with a question-mark!