8 posts tagged with "1970s"

There was only one operating system of our interest, which was released in the year 1974. It was:

In this post, we will see how you can put the nsys kernel on a disk image of Unix v5.

There were two operating system of our interest which were released in the year 1973. They were:

There were two operating system of our interest which was released in the year 1971. They were:

As promised in the tutorial on how to use ! PDP 7 Unix on SIMH, in this post, we will see how you can build ! PDP7 UNIX system images yourself from the source from the original project to resurrect Unix on the PDP-7 from a scan of the original assembly code.

There were four operating system of our interest which were released in the year 1970. They were:

In this post, we will see some Mainframe operating systems which were released in the 1970s and can be run on an emulator.

We have covered the 1960s. If I have missed any operating system which you have tested successfully on any emulator, please let me know in the comments.

1970s were the age in which microcomputers evolved, but the majority of operating systems we are going to cover are still minicomputer ones. This decade saw the rise of many historic operating systems including Unix, Alto OS (pictured above), Apple DOS and CP/M.