[geeks] Oldest OS Still Developed
    Sandwich Maker 
    adh at an.bradford.ma.us
       
    Wed Oct 18 14:12:58 CDT 2006
    
    
  
" From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
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" Do the space shuttle computers have any kind of OS?
dunno, but the original software was written in a custom language
acronymmed hal - i don't recall what it stood for.  i knew carl
helmers, and before he went off to become byte's first editor he
worked on it.  iirc the co was called intermetrics and they were in
cambridge.
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