VS/9 is a discontinued
computer operating system available for the
UNIVAC Series 90 mainframes (90/60, 90/70, and 90/80) during the late 1960s through 1980s. The 90/60 and 90/70 were repackaged Univac 9700 computers. After the
RCA acquisition by
Sperry, it was determined that the RCA
TSOS operating system was far more advanced than the
Univac counterpart, so the company opted to merge the Univac hardware with the RCA software and introduced the 90/70. The 90/60 was introduced shortly thereafter as a slower, less expensive 90/70. It wasn't until the introduction of the 90/80 that VS/9 finally had a hardware platform optimized to take full advantage of its capability to allow both interactive and batch operations on the same computer.