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

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey via TUHS]

On Sunday,  9 August 2026 at 17:09:38 -0400, John Levine via TUHS wrote:
> It appears that Lars Brinkhoff via TUHS <lars at nocrew.org> said:
>> I wager there were many other operating systems - also outside DEC -
>> around that time using monitor in a similar sense.
>
> There were.  IBM 709x IBSYS manuals describe the System Monitor,
> IBJOB has the Program Monitor, and so forth.

More recently, Tandem Computers' NonStop Kernel (previously Guardian)
has a "monitor" process PID 0 IIRC) that does very much the same sort
of thing.  As far as I know, that's still the case.

Greg
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