JEAN
Encyclopedia
JEAN was a dialect of the JOSS
programming language developed for and used on ICT 1900 series
computers in the late 1960s and early 1970s; it was implemented under the MINIMOP
operating system. It was used at the University of Southampton
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JEAN was an acronym derived from "JOSS Extended and Adapted for Nineteen-hundred". It was operated from a Teletype
terminal.
JOSS
JOSS was one of the very first interactive, time sharing programming languages.JOSS I, developed by J. Clifford Shaw at RAND was first implemented, in beta form, on the JOHNNIAC computer in May 1963...
programming language developed for and used on ICT 1900 series
ICT 1900 series
ICT 1900 was the name given to a series of mainframe computers released by International Computers and Tabulators and later International Computers Limited during the 1960s and '70s...
computers in the late 1960s and early 1970s; it was implemented under the MINIMOP
MINIMOP
MINIMOP was an operating system which ran on the International Computers Limited 1900 series of computers. MINIMOP provided an on-line, time-sharing environment . Batch facilities could be provided by simultaneously running George 2 on the same machine...
operating system. It was used at the University of Southampton
University of Southampton
The University of Southampton is a British public university located in the city of Southampton, England, a member of the Russell Group. The origins of the university can be dated back to the founding of the Hartley Institution in 1862 by Henry Robertson Hartley. In 1902, the Institution developed...
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JEAN was an acronym derived from "JOSS Extended and Adapted for Nineteen-hundred". It was operated from a Teletype
Teletype Corporation
The Teletype Corporation, a part of American Telephone and Telegraph Company's Western Electric manufacturing arm since 1930, came into being in 1928 when the Morkrum-Kleinschmidt Company changed its name to the name of its trademark equipment...
terminal.