User:Zazpot/Robert L. Patrick
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Robert L. Patrick was a computer scientist who worked on early operating systems.[1]
Patrick contributed to mainframe operating systems in the series that culminated in the creation of OS/360.[1] The series started in 1956 with the GM-NAA input/output system, progressing through the SHARE Operating System (SOS) (1959), IBSYS (1960), the Direct Couple, and finally OS/360 c.1965-1966.[1]
In 2006, Patrick donated a number of documents to the Computer History Museum.[2]