Software, SofTech Microsystems, UCSD p-System

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Description:

The UCSD p-System was a portable operating system first developed at the University of California, San Diego, in the 1970s. It was designed to run on any computer and provided the foundation to run any Pascal programmed application. The commercial version was developed and sold by SofTech Microsystems of San Diego, California. Their workforce included many former UCSD students from the p-System project. SoftTech marketed it as a competing operating system to DOS.

References: [last accessed 7-3-2019]

http://www.threedee.com/jcm/psystem/

https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/remembering_kenneth_bowles

Date Made: 1983

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: California, San Diego

See more items in: Medicine and Science: Computers, Computers & Business Machines

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Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 2012.3098.054Catalog Number: 2012.3098.054Nonaccession Number: 2012.3098

Object Name: software

Physical Description: paper (overall material)plastic (overall material)Measurements: overall: 8 1/16 in x 8 3/8 in x 1/16 in; 20.47875 cm x 21.2725 cm x .15875 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b0-f4a8-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1696129

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