General Motors Research Laboratories are the part of
General Motors
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responsible for creation of the first known
operating system
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Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also in ...
(
GM-NAA I/O
The GM-NAA I/O input/output system of General Motors and North American Aviation was the first operating system for the IBM 704 computer.
It was created in 1956 by Robert L. Patrick of General Motors Research and Owen Mock of North Americ ...
) in 1955 and contributed to the first
mechanical heart
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, the
Dodrill-GMR, successfully used while performing open heart surgery.
[American Heart Association. The Mechanical Heart celebrates 50 lifesaving years. 22 10 2002. 9 February 2008 http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml;jsessionid=EFNP3NSFUBXLICQFCXQCDSQ?identifier=3005888]
See also
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Multiple Console Time Sharing System
The Multiple Console Time Sharing System (MCTS) was an operating system developed by General Motors Research Laboratories in the 1970s for the Control Data Corporation STAR-100 supercomputer. MCTS was built to support GM's computer-aided design ...
References
External links
General Motors Research Laboratoriessite. Domain is one of the first
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domains.
General Motors subsidiaries
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