IBM Basic Programming Support

IBM Basic Programming Support/360 (BPS), formerly called Special Support, was a set of standalone programs for System/360 mainframes with a minimum of 8 KiB of memory.

BPS was developed by IBM's General Products Division in Endicott, New York. The package included "assemblers, IOCS, compilers, sorts, and utilities but no governing control program." BPS components were introduced in a series of product announcements between 1964 and 1965.</ref>^[1]^{: pp.319-321}

The group responsible for BPS went on to develop DOS/360 and TOS/360 as a supposed "interim" solution when it became evident that OS/360 would be too large to run on 16&npsp;KiB systems.

References

^ Pugh, E.W., Johnson, L.R. and Palmer, J.H. (1991). IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-16123-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[Pugh-1] Pugh, E.W., Johnson, L.R. and Palmer, J.H. (1991). IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-16123-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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