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<title>LJ 55: Origins of Generic NQS</title>
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<h3>Origins of Generic NQS</h3>
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NQS was originally developed for NASA back in 1985; the source code
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was sold to many companies, including Silicon Graphics, Cray Research
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and Monsanto Company. SG developed their own variant for use in IRIX 4,
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although it was discontinued before IRIX 5. Cray has enjoyed
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good commercial success with its NQE product, which features many
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enhancements over the original NQS.
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Monsanto chose to place ``Monsanto NQS'' under the GNU GPL
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and provided enhancements for IRIX and ports to several versions of UNIX,
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including SunOS and DEC OSF/UNIX, culminating in NQS v3.36 in 1994.
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In 1994, the University of Sheffield began a two-year funded program
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to provide all of UK academia with a robust and portable UNIX batch
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processing system. The University built on the excellent work of John
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Roman at Monsanto, releasing ``Generic NQS'' with new features, fixed
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bugs and support for over twenty versions of UNIX, including Linux.
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Today, Generic NQS continues to be supported by Stuart Herbert in his spare
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time, using machines running Linux and FreeBSD.
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