Web site: www-robotics.cs.umass.edu/~pop/OS.html (not active)
Origin: unknown
Category: unknown
Desktop environment: CLI
Architecture: unknown
Based on: Independent
Wikipedia:
Media: Install
The last version | Released: 1970′ (?)
Multipop – a time-sharing operating system developed in Edinburgh by Robin Popplestone and others in late 1967. It was inspired by MIT’ Project MAC, via a “MiniMac” project which was aborted when it became obvious that Elliot Brothers Ltd.
The Multipop, timesharing system, first operational in late 1967, was based on the implemenation of POP-2.
Making POP-2 be the command language for the operating system and the only language available to the user made it possible, on a relatively cheap computer (64K 24-bit words of memory), to support the time-shared development of quite complex programs, with relatively rapid responses to user interactions. Incorporating device handlers `cannibalised’ from the earlier MiniMac project, it supported much of the symbolic computation work at Edinburgh until the early-70’s.
