Queens Award for Technical Achievement 1979
- GEC Computers was awarded the Queens Award for Technical Achievement in 1979, for the
development of Nucleus.
© 1997 Andrew Gabriel. All Rights Reserved. / Last revision 13 January 2011
Processors - from 4080 through to the current 4310
Operating Systems - COS, DOS, OS4000, NOS, SCP-2
4080 Sales Brochure - the
original 1973 document
- Architecture - the CPU,
I/O, and Store systems
- Programing Languages - Babbage,
Fortran IV, Coral 66 (many more came later)
- Nucleus - the hardware executive
- Operating System Software - COS and
DOS (OS4000 came later)
- Peripherals - Paper tape, Teleprinter,
Lineprinter, Thermal console, Discs, Terminals
- Specifications - System sizing,
Timings, Register widths, Store, I/O, etc.
Queens Award for Technical Achievement 1979
- GEC Computers was awarded the Queens Award for Technical Achievement in 1979, for the
development of Nucleus.
© 1997 Andrew Gabriel.
All Rights Reserved. / Last revision 13 January 2011