Mobile Operating System (MOS; ) is an
operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware, software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also i ...
, a
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...
clone of
Unix
Unix (; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, an ...
from the 1980s.
[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."
Overview
This operating system is commonly found on
SM EVM SM EVM (СМ ЭВМ, abbreviation of Система Малых ЭВМ—literally System of Mini Computers) are several types of Soviet Union, Soviet and Comecon minicomputers produced from 1975 through the 1980s.
Most types of SM EVM are clone (co ...
minicomputers; it was also ported to
ES EVM
The ES EVM (russian: Единая система электронных вычислительных машин (ЕС ЭВМ), translit=Yedinaya sistema electronnykh vytchislitel'nykh mashin (ES EVM), "Unified System of Electronic Computers"), o ...
and
Elbrus. MOS is also used by high-end PDP-11 clones.
Modifications of MOS include
MNOS,
DEMOS, , etc.
See also
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List of Soviet computer systems
This is the list of Soviet computer systems. The Russian abbreviation EVM (ЭВМ), present in some of the names below, means “electronic computing machine” (russian: электронная вычислительная машина).
List of ...
References
Unix variants
Computing in the Soviet Union
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