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'''COS-3xx'''{{Short (Commercial Operating System) was the name useddescription|Product by [[Digital Equipment Corporation]] for a family of [[operating system]]s.}}

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<ref>{{cite book |title=Linux Dictionary |page=424 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vdZWBQAAQBAJ

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| released = 1972<ref name=D1957></ref>

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'''Commercial Operating System''' ('''COS''') is a discontinued family of [[operating system]]s from [[Digital Equipment Corporation]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Linux Dictionary |page=424 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vdZWBQAAQBAJ

|author=Binh Nguyen}}, citing {{cite web |title=QUECID |url=http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html}}</ref>

They supported the use of [[DIBOL]], a programming language combining features of [[BASIC]], [[FORTRAN]] and [[COBOL]].<ref>"{{cite news |newspaper=Computerworld |date=July 30, 1975 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jT2fQqJplN8C&pg=PT29 |title=Time-Sharing Uses Emphasized For DEC Datasystem 350 Series |page=19|quote=Dibol Under COS: The series operates under the Commercial Operating System (COS) 350, which provides timesharing with a high-speed response."}}</ref> {{citeCOS newspaperalso |newspaper=Computerworldsupported |date=July[[IBM 30,RPG]] 1975(Report |url=https://booksProgram Generator).google.com/books?id<ref name=jT2fQqJplN8CD1957>{{cite book

|title=DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION - Nineteen Fifty-Seven To The Present

|title=DIBOL under COS}}</ref>

|url=http://s3data.computerhistory.org/pdp-1/dec.digital_1957_to_the_present_(1978).1957-1978.102630349.pdf

|date=1978 |publisher=Digital Equipment Corporation}}</ref>

==Implementations==

The Commercial Operating System was implemented to run on hardware from the PDP-8<ref name=HandB.8e>{{cite book & PDP-11 family.

|title=PDP 8/e Small Computer Handbook

|date=1973 |publisher=Digital Equipment Corporation|pages= 2-19 thru 2-20}}</ref> and PDP-11 families.

===COS-310===

'''COS-310''' was developed for the PDP-8 to provide an operating environment for [[DIBOL]]. A COS-310 system was purchased as a package which included a desk, VT-52[[VT52]] VDT (Video Display Tube), and a pair of eight inch floppy drives. Optionally youIt could purchaseoptionally be purchased with one or more 2.5 MB hard drives that had removable media hard drives. COS-310 was one of the operating systems available on the [[DECmate#DECmate II|DECmate II]].<ref>{{efn|the other was [[WPS-8]]}}{{efn|There was a product named COS-300, and some DEC manuals are named with both 300 & 310.</ref>}}

===COS-350===

'''COS-350''' was developed to support the PDP-11 [[Portingporting|Portport]] of DIBOL, and was the focus for some vendors of [[turnkey]] software packages.<ref>{{cite newspapernews |newspaper=Computerworld |date=July 30, 1975

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jT2fQqJplN8C &pg=PT29 |title=Time-Sharing Uses Emphasized For DEC Datasystem 350 TurnkeySeries Payroll Package|page=19}}</ref>

Pre-COS-350, a PDP 11/05 single-user batch-oriented implementation was released; the multi-user PDP 11/10-based COS came about 4 years later.<ref name=D1957/> The much more powerful PDP-11/34 "added significant configuration flexibility and expansion capability."{{rp|p.69}}

==See also==

* [[Comparison of operating systems]]

* [[Timeline of operating systems]]

==Notes==

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==References==

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{{Digital Equipment Corporation}}

{{Time-sharing operating systems}}

[[Category:DEC operating systems]]

[[Category:Time-sharing operating systems]]

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