FLEX (operating system)

The operating system FLEX was developed in the 1970s by the company Technical Systems Consultants, Inc. (TSC ) for the Motorola processors 6800 and 6809.

It is a disk- based operating system for which there was quite a lot of programming languages. It is considered one of the most successful operating systems from the early days of the personal computer.

1976 appeared the version Mini Flex 1.0 for a home computer kit from Southwest Technical Products ( SWTP ) in conjunction with 51/4-Zoll floppy drives by Shugart Associates, she was later replaced by FLEX 1.0. Were also supported 8 " floppy drives. , The version for the 6809 called FLEX 9 In Germany, the operating system from Fischer software Stuttgart was used for the development of pharmacy computer software. FLEX was developed by Compusense Ltd.. Operating system for the Dragon 64 home computer offered.

FLEX was to Uniflex - a Unix -like system - developed. Many of the TSC computer languages ​​have been ported to Uniflex. Uniflex has been but virtually never sold.