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OPERATING SYSTEM/MULTIPROGRAMMING OF FIXED TASKS

Specialty Definition: OPERATING SYSTEM/MULTIPROGRAMMING OF FIXED TASKS

Domain	Definition
Computing	Operating System/Multiprogramming of Fixed Tasks (OS/MFT) One of the IBM operating systems associated with the IBM 360, released in 1966 and targetted at mid-range IBM 360 users (typically 360/40, 360/50). OS/MFT was the juinior member of the main 'OS' series of IBM operating systems, the other being OS/MVT. Smaller 360 mainframes used DOS. OS/MFT shared JCL and utilities with OS/MVT but allocated memory differently. In OS/MFT, partitions of memory were of a fixed number and size, specified by the generation and configuration of the operating system. As this class of mainframe had typically less than 512K of main memory, partitions tended to be about 128K. With the advent of Virtual Storage and the System 370's Dynamic Address Translation (DAT), OS/MFT was improved to become OS/VS1, taking account of virtual storage in a single partition up to 16MB. (1999-01-22). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: OPERATING SYSTEM/MULTIPROGRAMMING OF FIXED TASKS

Specialty definitions using "OPERATING SYSTEM/MULTIPROGRAMMING OF FIXED TASKS": OS/MFT, OSMFT. (references)

Alternative Orthography: OPERATING SYSTEM/MULTIPROGRAMMING OF FIXED TASKS

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 50 45 52 41 54 49 4E 47 53 59 53 54 45 4D 2F 4D 55 4C 54 49 50 52 4F 47 52 41 4D 4D 49 4E 47 4F 46 46 49 58 45 44 54 41 53 4B 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01010000 01000101 01010010 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01010011 01011001 01010011 01010100 01000101 01001101 00101111 01001101 01010101 01001100 01010100 01001001 01010000 01010010 01001111 01000111 01010010 01000001 01001101 01001101 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01001111 01000110 00100000 01000110 01001001 01011000 01000101 01000100 00100000 01010100 01000001 01010011 01001011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0050 0045 0052 0041 0054 0049 004E 0047 0053 0059 0053 0054 0045 004D 002F 004D 0055 004C 0054 0049 0050 0052 004F 0047 0052 0041 004D 004D 0049 004E 0047 004F 0046 0046 0049 0058 0045 0044 0054 0041 0053 004B 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

49503952355443484125359535439471747554654435052494152354747434841249402404358393825435534553

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