2026-02-21 15:51 UTC
@mossman@social.vivaldi.net
On ICL 1907 and 290x in the late 1970s the OS was called George 3/4.
It had sort of scripting on the commandline which I used to circumvent restrictions for students in online vs. batch compiling for reasons.
We had a very fast Algol-68 compiler from the royal radar department.
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@mossman@social.vivaldi.net 2026-02-21 16:00
@grauzone@social.tchncs.de @spitfire@mastodon.de @b0rk@social.jvns.ca I went looking on Wikipedia after I posted that. Seems the ICL stuff were very weird systems with very weird firmware/OSes