History
Looking back over the history of its development, BS2000/OSD has its roots in the TSOS operating system (TSOS: Time Sharing Operating System) first developed by RCA for the /46 model of the Spectra/70 series, a computer family of the late 1960s related in its architecture to IBM’s /360 series. It was one of the very first operating systems in which the principle of virtual addressing and a segregated address space for the programs of different users was systematically introduced. Right from the outset TSOS also allowed the data peripherals to be accessed only via record- or block-oriented file interfaces, thereby preventing the necessity to implement device dependencies in user programs.
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