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The Computer Journal 1971 14(4):344-347; doi:10.1093/comjnl/14.4.344
© 1971 by British Computer Society
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Notable features of Orion

A. J. Leonard * and M. E. Tribe §

The Orion Computer was design by Ferranti Ltd. and announced in 1959. It is a binary machine with time-sharing capability and uses an operating system called OMP (Organisation and Monitor Program). Because of the unpromising state of COBOL at that time, a commercial language NEBULA was designed specifically for the Orion. It goes out of commission in 1976.

So that many of its valuable and noteworthy characteristics do not become forgotten with the machine's demise, the following project was drawn up as a joint ICP/PACL effort. Hopefully it may be used, in part or whole, as an aid to forthcoming design.

The views expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the policy or conclusions of either the Prudential Assurance CO or ICL.

Received February 1971.

* International Computers Ltd., Finance Region.

§ Prudential Assurance Co. Ltd., DP Technical Services.


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