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After SDS was acquired by Xerox in 1969 and became Xerox Data Systems, the SDS 940 was renamed as the '''XDS 940'''. The design was originally created by the University Of California, Berkeley , along with Tymshare , as part of their Project Genie that ran between 1964 and 1965. Genie added memory and controller logic to an existing SDS 930 computer to give it paged Virtual Memory , which would be heavily copied by other designs. The 940 was simply a commercialized version of the Genie design, and remained backwardly compatible with their earlier models (with the exception of the 12-bit SDS 92 ). Like most systems of the era, the machine was built with a bank of Core Memory as the primary storage, allowing between 16 and 64 kilowords. This was backed up by a variety of secondary storage devices, including a 1376 kWord drum in Genie, or Hard Disk s in the SDS models in the form of a drum-like 2097 kWord "fixed head" disk or a 16777 kWord traditional "floating head" model. The SDS machines also included a Paper Tape punch and reader, Line Printer , and a real-time clock. They Bootstrapped from paper tape. SOFTWARE SYSTEM As of 1969, the XDS 940 Software System consisted of the following:
The minimum configuration required to run the Software System included (partial list):
Additional software was available from the XDS Users' Group Library, such as a String processing system, "SYSPOPs" (system programmed operators, which allow access to system services), CAL (Conversational Algebraic Language, a dialect of JOSS ), QED (text Editor) (a text editor), TAP ( Time-sharing Assembly Program , an Assembler ), and DDT , a debugging tool. REFERENCE
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