[TUHS] Lions laboratory and a short excursion into DOS-11

Lars Brinkhoff via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org
Sun Aug 9 20:11:10 AEST 2026


Aron Insinga wrote:
> Calling the operating system the Monitor is, I think, from the
> PDP-6/PDP-10 Monitor (later renamed TOPS-10)

There's also BBN's TENEX monitor (ObTuhs: tcsh is the "TENEX csh"), of
which there there is a resident part and a swappable (demand paged) part.

I wager there were many other operating systems - also outside DEC -
around that time using monitor in a similar sense.


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