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History of <strong>Operating</strong> <strong>Systems</strong><br />

Third generation computers (1965-80)<br />

– Family of computers<br />

» different facilities (I/O, computing power,<br />

memory)<br />

» unified single operating system (again,<br />

providing abstraction away from the hardware)<br />

» IBM 360<br />

millions of lines of assembly language code<br />

written by thousands of programmers<br />

and incorporating thousands of bugs!<br />

Copyright © 2007 <strong>David</strong> <strong>Vernon</strong> (www.vernon.eu)

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