For its day, it was fine. Indeed, my very first operating system was an OS/360 descendant with TSO (Time Sharing Option) running on top of it. What I’m talking about is the very first version of ...

For example, the engine management system within a car uses a real-time operating system to react ... lends itself to jobs with similar inputs, processing and outputs where no human intervention ...

Fernando Corbató, whose work on computer time-sharing in the 1960s helped pave ... at Bell Labs to create Unix, a computer operating system that took root in the 1970s and was adopted widely ...