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Further reading □ Preface □ Contents □ 1. Introduction □ 2. The co-ordination of routines □ 3. Store organisation □ 4. Magnetic tape supervisor routines □ 5. Peripheral equipment □ 6. The Operating System □ 7. The Scheduling System □ 8. Details of the Atlas 1 computer installations

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Applications Associates Literature Society Technology Software revisited

Early history □ Minutes of committee meetings □ Progress reports □ Other reports □ News cuttings □ In-house publications □ Committee papers □ Personal recollections □ ACL publications □ Books □ Early Atlas publications □ FR80 reports □ Atlas manuals □ ICL1906A manuals □ Other manuals

Algol Language □ Algol Library □ Atlas Autocode □ ABL (Atlas Basic Language) □ ABL exercises □ Atlas Supervisor □ Atlas 1 Extracodes □ Atlas 1 Operators □ Atlas 1 Preparing a program □ Atlas 1 Supervisor and Fixed Store routines □ Atlas 1 Supervisor Vol 1 □ Atlas 1 Supervisor Vol 2 □ Atlas 1 Supervisor Vol 3 □ Atlas 1 Features: Early Ferranti paper □ Atlas Testing □ Input/Output for Atlas 1 and 2 □ Atlas Computer: Ferranti Overview □ Atlas Bible □ Atlas 2 Supervisor

Second Edition

The Atlas Supervisor: Second Edition

TL 1685, November 1966

This document is based on the following papers:

"The Atlas Supervisor", by T. Kilburn, R.B. Payne and D.J. Howarth; reprinted with the permission of the American Federation of Information Processing Societies, original copyright holder as appearing in their publication: "Computers - Key to Total Systems Control."

"The Manchester University Atlas Operating System - Part 1, Internal Organization", by T. Kilburn, D.J. Howarth, R.B. Payne and F.H. Sumner; first published in "The Computer Journal", Vol. 4, no. 3, p.222, October 1961.

"The Manchester University Atlas Operating System - Part 2, Users' Description", by D.J. Howarth, R.B. Payne and F.H. Sumner; first published in "The Computer Journal", Vol. 4, no. 3, p. 226, October 1961.

"The Atlas Scheduling System", by D.J. Howarth, P.D. Jones, and M. Wyld; first published in "The Computer Journal", Vol. 5, no. 3, p. 238, October 1962.

The amended versions of the above three papers are published by permission of the Honorary Editors of "The Computer Journal".

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