Talk:Business Operating System (software)

nedd to mount a dive w/Business Operating System v5.1 and copy it ..I am try to emulate in a window on xp but I dont see the data on the drive.. It sill runs on the comper that it is on and it even works on a new computer. I dont know how to clone it so i can mess with it

Needs verification
Apart from an old issue of an Atari magazine http://www.atarimagazines.com/startspe1/business.html, and its own website, global3000.com, I fail to find anything about this topic. Is this a hoax? Can someone please verify this? -- Perfecto 02:45, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

BOS is real
I worked for a software house called WASP Software that produced vertical software (industry specific vs general) for printer, accountants, and solicitors (lawyers) running under the BOS system during the summer vacation before I started at University (1984) and a few occasions thereafter.

I have numerous fliers, magazine articles, dealer notes and a copy of BOS World from October 1986. Somewhere (probably my sister's attic) I have manuals for BOS too

There is pretty much nothing available on the web about the operating system - once Misys took it over, the emphasis was on the accounting suite of applications vs the portability offered by BOS...

I'll get round(!) to re-creating the entry with more background detail from the above sources - naturally my memory some 20 years later isn't as good as the fliers!

T.

P.S. BOS Software Limited get a mention in the Hansard which is the journal of the goings on at the (British) Houses of Parliament http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm198990/cmhansrd/1990-03-28/Writtens-1.html ha ha ha ha —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.125.66.78 (talk) 17:26, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

-- Very much real, I worked for CCTA in the UK in the 1980s and we were trying quite hard to use BOS as a platform in government sites. I know it got as far as New Zealand because I was offered a job there but got cold feet before travelling halfway round the world...!

MicroCobol was pretty good for its time, it offered If-Else-End and Do-Enddo constructs well before mainframe COBOL caught up, and its screen handling was a lot less fraught than CICS which I've also had the sheer joy of working with. Captain Pedant (talk) 12:17, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

BOS exists, but is rare in USA.
BOS is real & I have the scars to prove it. In 1986, I bought a property mgmt program (PMS by Portable Software Inc) which ran on BOS V? in native mode. Even back then, BOS supported dumb terminals, concurrent processing & networking on a lowly IBM XT. DOS couldn't even tie its own shoes. I now run BOS V8.1 (aka Global System Manager 2000) as a DOS application under Windows 98. While odd & rare, it is also: very stable, very fast, portable, compact. It's powerful menu system (V6.1 is better then V8.1) makes it easy for new workers to learn & use. As the owner & system manager, my learning curve was long & difficult because tech support ranges from non-existant to terrible. Documentation is hard to read, written in a style PSI called "British Novelese". BOS Finder is a useful database program. BOS Writer works but is primitive. I found BOS Planner useless & BOS Auto Clerk inscrutable. Why continue to use BOS? It runs endlessly & does everything I need (with some work-arounds). Twslandlord 01:41, 9 February 2007 (UTC)Tom Stockton

Adding detail
I'm cleaning the section up... and adding as necessary in the following order

i) History of BOS's ownership The trinity of MPSL/MPPL/MPTL was missing and has been added. I need to add the later ownership (global3000), but at that probably becomes less relevent to BOS per se as the Accounting Package, Global 2000/ Global 3000 was the driver at that stage

ii) Types of BOS BOS was the first micro processor operating system to have record level locking - even before RSX on PDP's had it M/BOS needs to be mentioned - a true multi user O/S - it's touched on in the original article, but needs to be expanded BOS/net - networked BOS isn't touched on

iii) Applications and ISV's The MPPL derived apps are mentioned, but the wealth of apps developed by ISV's isn't. I'll aim to (finally(!)) get scans of some of my copies of BOS/ World

iv) demise of BOS... Well it appears to still be in use by at least one property management company(!)

History
For some reason the date of the restructure to MPPL etc. was set as 1991. This is ten years out. I worked at MPSL 1983-1985 when it was renamed as BOS. The content of the page is otherwise pretty accurate. The Speedbase 4GL is not mentioned however. The products are still extant, the dying embers of a great idea that lost its way but remerged with Java - destined for a similar fate - death at the hands of a de facto standard? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Redsq01 (talk • contribs) 11:50, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

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Microprocessors are not the same as microcomputers
My understanding is that the Intel 8080 and Motorola 6800 are microprocessors, not microcomputers. I have edited the lead accordingly, and made a couple of changes to associated Wikilinks. If any editor disagrees, feel free to revert. I've noticed a couple of other issues with this article, which I will try to deal with in due course. Mike Marchmont (talk) 13:01, 10 May 2023 (UTC)