General Motors Research Laboratories are the part of
General Motors
General Motors Company (GM) is an American Multinational corporation, multinational Automotive industry, automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, United States. The company is most known for owning and manufacturing f ...
responsible for creation of the first known
operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common daemon (computing), services for computer programs.
Time-sharing operating systems scheduler (computing), schedule tasks for ...
(
GM-NAA I/O) in 1955 and contributed to the first
mechanical heart
An artificial heart is a device that replaces the heart. Artificial hearts are typically used as a bridge to heart transplantation, but ongoing research aims to develop a device that could permanently replace the heart when a transplant—whe ...
, the
Dodrill-GMR, successfully used while performing open heart surgery.
[American Heart Association. The Mechanical Heart celebrates 50 lifesaving years. 22 10 2002. 9 February 2008 http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml;jsessionid=EFNP3NSFUBXLICQFCXQCDSQ?identifier=3005888]
See also
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Multiple Console Time Sharing System
References
External links
General Motors Research Laboratoriessite. Domain is one of the first
.com domains.
General Motors subsidiaries
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