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OPS-1(ID:205/ops001)

On-line Process Synthesizer 

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Country: United States
Designed 1964
Published: 1964
Genus: Activity scanning

On-line Process Synthesizer.

Martin Greenberger, MIT 1964

Developed out of Seminar at Sloan School of Management in Spring Semester of 1964. An attempt to make a general purpose programming language that suited the needs of management, developed by the seminar on the basis of prior research by Greenberger.

The Seminar designed the program to be extremely modular and extensible, comprising a global database and a series of OPS or operators. OPerators could be added to the system to enhance functionality, or combined into Compounded Operators (KOPs) to make a simper means of expression.

System design concepts were were:
- Simplicity
- Versatility
- Generality
- Individuality
- Expandability and open-endedness
- Modularity
- Immediate execution
- Conditional recalling
- Graduated guidance

Discrete simulation under CTSS. Sammet 1969, p.660. Versions: OPS-3, OPS-4.


There is a copy online at the Newell archive of the OPS-1 manual which is well-worth reading, but sadly it has no direct URL.

Structures:
Related languages
OPS-1 → CALCULAID   Extension of
OPS-1 → OPS-2   Evolution of
OPS-1 → OPSIM   Extension of
OPS-1 → OPTRAN   Evolution of
OPS-1 → VECOPS   Extension of
References:
  • Greenber Martin et al (1964) Greenber Martin et al "The OPS-1 Manual" MIT Technical Report MAC-TR-8 Online page at MIT Abstract
  • Greenberger, M. (1964) Greenberger, M. "A new methodology for computer simulation" Project MAC, MIT, Cambridge, Mass., MACTR- 13.
  • Fano, Robert (1965) Fano, Robert "The MAC system: a progress report" pp131-150
          in Sass, M. (1965) Sass, M. and W. Wilkinson, eds. Computer Augmentation of Human Reasoning Spartan Books, Washington, D.C., 1965
  • Greenberger, M , Jones, M. M., Morris, J H , Jr., (1965) Greenberger, M , Jones, M. M., Morris, J H , Jr., and Ness, D.N. "On- line Computation and Simulation: The OPS-3 System", MIT Press 1965.
          in Sass, M. (1965) Sass, M. and W. Wilkinson, eds. Computer Augmentation of Human Reasoning Spartan Books, Washington, D.C., 1965
  • Greenberger, Martin and Jones, Malcom M (1966) Greenberger, Martin and Jones, Malcom M "Online Simulation in the OPS System", p476 Abstract
          in [ACM] (1966) [ACM] CACM 9(07) July 1966
  • Lubin, John Francis and Teichroew, Daniel (1966) Lubin, John Francis and Teichroew, Daniel "Computer simulation—discussion of the technique and comparison of languages" pp723-741
          in [ACM] (1966) [ACM] CACM 9(10) October 1966
  • Sammet, Jean E. (1969) Sammet, Jean E. "Computer Languages - Principles and History" Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice-Hall 1969. p.660.
          in [ACM] (1966) [ACM] CACM 9(10) October 1966
  • Smith, Lyle B. (1970) Smith, Lyle B. "A Survey of Interactive Graphical Systems for Mathematics" Extract: OPS-1 and OPS-3
          in [ACM] (1970) [ACM] ACM Computing Surveys 2(4) Dec1970
  • Stock and Stock (1973) Stock, Marylene and Stock, Karl F. "Bibliography of Programming Languages: Books, User Manuals and Articles from PLANKALKUL to PL/I" Verlag Dokumentation, Pullach/Munchen 1973 429 Abstract
          in [ACM] (1970) [ACM] ACM Computing Surveys 2(4) Dec1970
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