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 | | The Atlas supervisor, designed principally by David Howarth of Ferranti Ltd, managed the operating system software for the Atlas transistorized mainframe computer, built at Manchester University in England in the early 1960s. |
 | | Design of the Atlas supervisor was prompted by a realization in the late 1950s that the preliminary plans for the Atlas computer (the prototype was called MUSE, for Micro-Second), which was to process one million instructions per second, included insufficient mechanisms for the efficient batch processing (qv) of programs. |
 | | Atlas salespeople claimed at the time that one commercial Ferranti Atlas computer could handle the workload of four IBM 7094s. |
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