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===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-52VT52]] VDT (Video Display Tube), and a pair of eight inch floppy drives. It could optionally be purchased with one or more 2.5 MB removable media hard drives. COS-310 was one of the operating systems available on the [[DECmate II]].<ref>the other was [[WPS-8]].</ref><ref>There was a product named COS-300, and some DEC manuals are named with both 300 & 310.</ref>

Unlike under [[TSS/8]], where each user had only a 4K virtual machine, on COS, each user had (up to) a virtual 32K.<ref>"Multiple users of a Digital Equipment Corp. PDP-8 can each have a virtual machine with 32K words of memory running under.. COS-300.. {{cite magazine