- GM-NAA I/O
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developer =General Motors ,North American Aviation
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language = English
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website = The GM-NAA I/Oinput/output system ofGeneral Motors andNorth American Aviation was the firstoperating system in the history ofcomputer science .cite web
url=http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?year=1956
title=Timeline of Computer History: 1956: Software
publisher=Computer History Museum
accessdate=2007-09-04]It was created in 1956 by Bob Patrick of General Motors and Owen Mock of North American Aviation for the
IBM 704 computer. It was based on asystem monitor created in 1955 by programmers of General Motors for itsIBM 701 .The main function of GM-NAA I/O was to automatically execute a new program once the one that was being executed had finished. It was formed of shared routines to the programs that provided common access to the of
input/output devices.ee also
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SHARE Operating System , an operating system based on GM-NAA I/O.
*Timeline of operating systems References
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