Software, SofTech Microsystems, UCSD p-System
Object Details
- 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
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1983
- ID Number
- 2012.3098.054
- catalog number
- 2012.3098.054
- nonaccession 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
- place made
- United States: California, San Diego
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1696129
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b0-f4a8-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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