General Motors Research Laboratories are the part of General Motors responsible for creation of the first known operating system (GM-NAA I/O) in 1955 and contributed to the first mechanical heart, the Dodrill-GMR, successfully used while performing open heart surgery.American Heart Association. The Mechanical Heart celebrates 50 lifesaving years. 22 10 2002. 9 February 2008 http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml;jsessionid=EFNP3NSFUBXLICQFCXQCDSQ?identifier=3005888
See also Multiple Console Time Sharing System
References
External links General Motors Research Laboratories site. Domain is one of the first .com domains.
Facts First true operating systems (mid-1950s) GM-NAA I/O (1956) Developed by General Motors Research for IBM computers First real operating system (batch processing).