Frequent Question: Who Developed Operating System?
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Ken Thompson was working at Bell Labs in New Jersey and was given the use of a PDP-7 minicomputer. He decided to create an operating system for the minicomputer for the convenience it provided even though there would be only one user.

Who made the first operating system?

The first operating system was introduced in the early 1950’s, it was called GMOS and was created by General Motors for IBM’s machine the 701. Operating systems in the 1950’s were called single-stream batch processing systems because the data was submitted in groups.

When was the first operating system developed?

The first operating system used for real work was GM-NAA I/O, produced in 1956 by General Motors’ Research division for its IBM 704. Most other early operating systems for IBM mainframes were also produced by customers.

Robert Thorne

Robert Thorne

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Robert Thorne covers electric vehicle innovations, autonomous driving systems, global mobility trends, and automotive engineering developments.

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