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Intelligence Laboratory">Project MAC</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Programming_language" title="Programming language">Written in</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/FAP_assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="FAP assembly">FAP assembly</a>, <a href="/wiki/MAD_(programming_language)" title="MAD (programming language)">MAD</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Working state</th><td class="infobox-data">Discontinued, simulator available</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Source model</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Open_source" title="Open source">Open source</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Initial release</th><td class="infobox-data">1961<span class="noprint">; 63 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1961</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Marketing target</th><td class="infobox-data">Colleges and universities<sup id="cite_ref-50th_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50th-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Natural_language" title="Natural language">Available in</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Platforms</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/IBM_7090" title="IBM 7090">IBM 7090</a>, <a href="/wiki/IBM_7094" class="mw-redirect" title="IBM 7094">IBM 7094</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Kernel_(operating_system)" title="Kernel (operating 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(1959)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/IBM_7090/94_IBSYS" title="IBM 7090/94 IBSYS">IBSYS</a> (1960)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">MIT CTSS</a> (1961)</li> <li>7040/7044 Operating System (16/32K) (7040-PR-150)</li> <li>1410/7010 Operating System<br />(1410-PR-155)</li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Miscellaneous S/360 line OSes</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align: left"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/BOS/360" title="BOS/360">BOS/360</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/DOS/360_and_successors#TOS/360" title="DOS/360 and successors">TOS/360</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/TSS_(operating_system)" title="TSS (operating system)">TSS/360</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michigan_Terminal_System" title="Michigan Terminal System">MTS</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/ORVYL_and_WYLBUR" title="ORVYL and WYLBUR">ORVYL</a> (1967)</li> <li>RACS (1965) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/IBM_Remote_Access_Computing" title="IBM Remote Access Computing">RAX</a> (1966) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/MUSIC/SP" title="MUSIC/SP">MUSIC</a> (1972) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/MUSIC/SP" title="MUSIC/SP">MUSIC/SP</a> (1985)</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/DOS/360_and_successors" title="DOS/360 and successors">DOS/360 and successors</a> (1966)</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align: left"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/DOS/360_and_successors#DOS/360" title="DOS/360 and successors">DOS/360</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/DOS/VS" class="mw-redirect" title="DOS/VS">DOS/VS</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/DOS/VSE" class="mw-redirect" title="DOS/VSE">DOS/VSE</a> (1979) <ul><li>VSE/AF (1979)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/VSE/SP" class="mw-redirect" title="VSE/SP">VSE/SP</a> (1983, 1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/VSE/ESA" class="mw-redirect" title="VSE/ESA">VSE/ESA</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/VSE_(operating_system)" title="VSE (operating system)">z/VSE</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/VSE_(operating_system)" title="VSE (operating system)">VSE<sup>n</sup></a> (2021)</li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/OS/360_and_successors" title="OS/360 and successors">OS/360 and successors</a> (1966)</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align: left"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/MFT_(operating_system)" class="mw-redirect" title="MFT (operating system)">MFT</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/MFT_II" class="mw-redirect" title="MFT II">MFT II</a> (1968) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/OS/VS1" title="OS/VS1">OS/VS1</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/OS/VS1_BPE" class="mw-redirect" title="OS/VS1 BPE">OS/VS1 BPE</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Multiprogramming_with_a_Variable_number_of_Tasks" class="mw-redirect" title="Multiprogramming with a Variable number of Tasks">MVT</a> (1967) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/65MP" class="mw-redirect" title="65MP">65MP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/OS/VS2_(SVS)" title="OS/VS2 (SVS)">OS/VS2R1</a> (SVS) (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/MVS" title="MVS">MVS</a> (OS/VS2R2 and later) (1974) <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=MVS/SE&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="MVS/SE (page does not exist)">MVS/SE</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=MVS/SE_2&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="MVS/SE 2 (page does not exist)">MVS/SE 2</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/MVS/SP" class="mw-redirect" title="MVS/SP">MVS/SP</a> Version 1 (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/MVS/XA" class="mw-redirect" title="MVS/XA">MVS/XA</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/MVS/ESA" class="mw-redirect" title="MVS/ESA">MVS/ESA</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/OS/390" title="OS/390">OS/390</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Z/OS" title="Z/OS">z/OS</a> (2000)</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/History_of_CP/CMS" title="History of CP/CMS">VM line</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align: left"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/IBM_CP-40" title="IBM CP-40">CP-40</a><a href="/wiki/CP/CMS" title="CP/CMS">/CMS</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/CP-67" title="CP-67">CP-67</a><a href="/wiki/CP/CMS" title="CP/CMS">/CMS</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/VP/CSS" title="VP/CSS">VP/CSS</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/VM_(operating_system)" title="VM (operating system)">VM/370</a> (1972)</li> <li><a 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<b>Compatible Time-Sharing System</b> (<b>CTSS</b>) was the first general purpose <a href="/wiki/Time-sharing" title="Time-sharing">time-sharing</a> <a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">operating system</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Compatible Time Sharing referred to time sharing which was compatible with <a href="/wiki/Batch_processing" title="Batch processing">batch processing</a>; it could offer both time sharing and batch processing concurrently. </p><p>CTSS was developed at the <a href="/wiki/MIT_Computation_Center" title="MIT Computation Center">MIT Computation Center</a> ("Comp Center"). CTSS was first demonstrated on MIT's modified <a href="/wiki/IBM_709" title="IBM 709">IBM 709</a> in November 1961. The hardware was replaced with a modified <a href="/wiki/IBM_7090" title="IBM 7090">IBM 7090</a> in 1962 and later a modified <a href="/wiki/IBM_7094" class="mw-redirect" title="IBM 7094">IBM 7094</a> called the "blue machine" to distinguish it from the Project MAC CTSS IBM 7094. Routine service to MIT Comp Center users began in the summer of 1963 and was operated there until 1968. </p><p>A second deployment of CTSS on a separate IBM 7094 that was received in October 1963 (the "red machine") was used early on in <a href="/wiki/MIT_Computer_Science_and_Artificial_Intelligence_Laboratory#Project_MAC" title="MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory">Project MAC</a> until 1969 when the red machine was moved to the Information Processing Center<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and operated until July 20, 1973. CTSS ran on only those two machines; however, there were remote CTSS users outside of MIT including ones in California, South America, the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Edinburgh" title="University of Edinburgh">University of Edinburgh</a> and the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">University of Oxford</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-50th_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50th-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ctsspg69_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ctsspg69-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Compatible_Time-Sharing_System&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/John_Backus" title="John Backus">John Backus</a> said in the 1954 summer session at <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">MIT</a> that "By time sharing, a big computer could be used as several small ones; there would need to be a reading station for each user".<sup id="cite_ref-jbackus_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jbackus-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Computers at that time, like <a href="/wiki/IBM_704" title="IBM 704">IBM 704</a>, were not powerful enough to implement such system, but at the end of 1958, MIT's Computation Center nevertheless added a typewriter input to its 704 with the intent that a programmer or operator could "obtain additional answers from the machine on a time-sharing basis with other programs using the machine simultaneously".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 1959, <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Strachey" title="Christopher Strachey">Christopher Strachey</a> published a paper "Time Sharing in Large Fast Computers" at the <a href="/wiki/International_Federation_for_Information_Processing#History" title="International Federation for Information Processing">UNESCO Information Processing Conference</a> in Paris, where he envisaged a programmer <a href="/wiki/Debugging" title="Debugging">debugging</a> a program at a console (like a <a href="/wiki/Teleprinter" title="Teleprinter">teletype</a>) connected to the computer, while another program was running in the computer at the same time.<sup id="cite_ref-ctsspg63_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ctsspg63-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-mccarthyts_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mccarthyts-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Debugging programs was an important problem at that time, because with batch processing, it then often took a day from submitting a changed code, to getting the results. <a href="/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist)" title="John McCarthy (computer scientist)">John McCarthy</a> wrote a memo about that at MIT, after which a preliminary study committee and a working committee were established at MIT, to develop time sharing. The committees envisaged many users using the computer at the same time, decided the details of implementing such system at MIT, and started the development of the system. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Experimental_Time_Sharing_System">Experimental Time Sharing System</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Compatible_Time-Sharing_System&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Experimental Time Sharing System"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>By July, 1961<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a few time sharing commands had become operational on the Computation Center's IBM 709, and in November 1961, <a href="/wiki/Fernando_J._Corbat%C3%B3" title="Fernando J. Corbató">Fernando J. Corbató</a> demonstrated at MIT what was called the <i>Experimental Time-Sharing System</i>. On May 3, 1962, F. J. Corbató, M. M. Daggett and R. C. Daley published a paper about that system at the <a href="/wiki/Joint_Computer_Conference" title="Joint Computer Conference">Spring Joint Computer Conference</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-etss_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etss-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Robert C. Daley, Peter R. Bos and at least 6 other programmers implemented the operating system, partly based on the <a href="/wiki/Fortran_Monitor_System" class="mw-redirect" title="Fortran Monitor System">Fortran Monitor System</a>. </p><p>The system used an <a href="/wiki/IBM_7090" title="IBM 7090">IBM 7090</a>, modified by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Herbert_M._Teager&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Herbert M. Teager (page does not exist)">Herbert M. Teager</a>, with added 3 <a href="/wiki/Friden_Flexowriter" title="Friden Flexowriter">Flexowriters</a> for user consoles, and maybe a <a href="/wiki/Programmable_interval_timer" title="Programmable interval timer">timer</a>. Each of the 3 users had two <a href="/wiki/IBM_729" title="IBM 729">tape units</a>, one for the user's file directory, and one for dumping the core (program in memory). There was also one tape unit for the system commands, there were no disk drives. The <a href="/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory" title="Magnetic-core memory">memory</a> was 27 k words (36-bit words) for users, and 5 k words for the supervisor (operating system). The input from the consoles was written to the buffers in the supervisor, by <a href="/wiki/Interrupt" title="Interrupt">interrupts</a>, and when a <a href="/wiki/Carriage_return" title="Carriage return">return character</a> was received, the control was given to the supervisor, which dumped the running code to the tape and decided what to run next. The console commands implemented at the time were <i>login, logout, input, edit, fap, mad, madtrn, load, use, start, skippm, listf, printf, xdump</i> and <i>xundump</i>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="CTSS command names are limited to six characters so how could xundump be a command? (February 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>This became the initial version of the Compatible Time-Sharing System. This was apparently the first ever public demonstration of <a href="/wiki/Time-sharing" title="Time-sharing">time-sharing</a>; there are other claims, but they refer to special-purpose systems, or with no known papers published. The "compatibility" of CTSS was with background jobs run on the same computer, which generally used more of the compute resources than the time-sharing functions. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Applications">Applications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Compatible_Time-Sharing_System&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Applications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="DOTSYS_and_BRAILLEMBOSS">DOTSYS and BRAILLEMBOSS</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Compatible_Time-Sharing_System&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: DOTSYS and BRAILLEMBOSS"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first version of the DOTSYS <a href="/wiki/Braille" title="Braille">braille</a> translation software ran on CTSS and could output to a BRAILLEMBOSS braille page printer.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> DOTSYS on CTSS was first demonstrated on August 18, 1966, as part of a feasibility study where teletypesetter tape, in the form of news, was converted to Grade 2 Braille. The following month the feasibility of converting textbook information on teletypesetter tape to error-free Grade 2 Braille was successfully demonstrated.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As MIT CTSS was an academic system, a research vehicle and not a system for commercial computing, two years later a version of DOTSYS stripped of CTSS dependencies for software portability was used on an IBM 709 at the <a href="/wiki/American_Printing_House_for_the_Blind" title="American Printing House for the Blind">American Printing House for the Blind</a> to print the first braille edition of a book produced from teletypesetter input, only a few weeks after the ink-print version.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The following year, on CTSS, a demonstration of printing mathematical tables in braille was shown. A short FORTRAN II program was written to produce a conversion table from inches to millimeters in braille via the BRAILLEMBOSS braille page printer.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Intrex">Intrex</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Compatible_Time-Sharing_System&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Intrex"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Intrex_on_CTSS.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Intrex_on_CTSS.png/220px-Intrex_on_CTSS.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="153" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Intrex_on_CTSS.png/330px-Intrex_on_CTSS.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Intrex_on_CTSS.png/440px-Intrex_on_CTSS.png 2x" data-file-width="952" data-file-height="664" /></a><figcaption>Diagram of the Intrex running on CTSS</figcaption></figure> <p>The Intrex Retrieval System ran on CTSS. Intrex was an experimental, pilot-model machine-oriented bibliographic storage and retrieval system with a database that stored a catalog of roughly 15,000 journal articles. It was used to develop and test concepts for library automation.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A deployment of three BRISC <a href="/wiki/Cathode-ray_tube" title="Cathode-ray tube">CRT</a> consoles for testing at the MIT Engineering Library showed that it was preferred over two other systems, ARDS and DATEL.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Features">Features</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Compatible_Time-Sharing_System&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Features"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The original <a href="/wiki/ELIZA" title="ELIZA">ELIZA</a> ran on CTSS.<sup id="cite_ref-50th_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50th-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>CTSS was the first computer system to implement <a href="/wiki/Password" title="Password">password</a> login.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>CTSS had one of the first computerized text editing and formatting utilities, called <a href="/wiki/TYPSET_and_RUNOFF" title="TYPSET and RUNOFF">TYPSET and RUNOFF</a> (the successors of MEMO, MODIFY and DITTO).</li> <li>CTSS had one of the first inter-user messaging implementations, pioneering <a href="/wiki/Electronic_mail" class="mw-redirect" title="Electronic mail">electronic mail</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-thvv_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thvv-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>CTSS had one of the first <a href="/wiki/Instant_messaging" title="Instant messaging">instant messaging</a> systems similar to <a href="/wiki/Write_(Unix)" title="Write (Unix)">write</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>MIT Computation Center staff member <a href="/wiki/Louis_Pouzin" title="Louis Pouzin">Louis Pouzin</a> created for CTSS a command called <a href="/wiki/RUNCOM" title="RUNCOM">RUNCOM</a>, which executed a list of commands contained in a file.<sup id="cite_ref-50th_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50th-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> RUNCOM also provided for parameter substitution.<sup id="cite_ref-ctsspg69_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ctsspg69-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He later created a design for the <a href="/wiki/Multics" title="Multics">Multics</a> <a href="/wiki/Shell_(computing)" title="Shell (computing)">shell</a> that was implemented by <a href="/wiki/Glenda_Schroeder" title="Glenda Schroeder">Glenda Schroeder</a> which in turn inspired Unix <a href="/wiki/Shell_script" title="Shell script">shell scripts</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>CTSS had an implementation of the text editor <a href="/wiki/QED_(text_editor)" title="QED (text editor)">QED</a>, the predecessor of <a href="/wiki/Ed_(text_editor)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ed (text editor)">ed</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vi_(text_editor)" title="Vi (text editor)">vi</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Vim_(text_editor)" title="Vim (text editor)">vim</a>, with regular expressions added by <a href="/wiki/Ken_Thompson" title="Ken Thompson">Ken Thompson</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Implementation">Implementation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Compatible_Time-Sharing_System&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Implementation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kernel">Kernel</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Compatible_Time-Sharing_System&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Kernel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>CTSS used a modified IBM 7090 mainframe computer<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that had two 32,768 (32K) 36-bit-<a href="/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)" title="Word (computer architecture)">word</a> banks of <a href="/wiki/Core_memory" class="mw-redirect" title="Core memory">core memory</a> instead of the default configuration which provides only one.<sup id="cite_ref-osc_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-osc-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One bank was reserved for the time-sharing supervisory program, the other for user programs. CTSS had a protected-mode kernel; the supervisor's functions in the A-core (memory bank A) could be called only by software interrupts, as in modern operating systems. Causing memory-protection interrupts were used for software interrupts.<sup id="cite_ref-ctsspg63_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ctsspg63-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Central_processing_unit" title="Central processing unit">Processor</a> allocation <a href="/wiki/Scheduling_(computing)" title="Scheduling (computing)">scheduling</a> with a quantum time unit 200 ms, was controlled by a <a href="/wiki/Multilevel_feedback_queue" title="Multilevel feedback queue">multilevel feedback queue</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-osc_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-osc-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It also had some special memory-management hardware,<sup id="cite_ref-multiprogramming-package_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-multiprogramming-package-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a clock interrupt,<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the ability to trap certain instructions.<sup id="cite_ref-multiprogramming-package_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-multiprogramming-package-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Supervisor_subroutines">Supervisor subroutines</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Compatible_Time-Sharing_System&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Supervisor subroutines"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>RDFLXA – Read an input line from console</li> <li>WRFLX – Write an output line to console</li> <li>DEAD – Put the user into dead status, with no program in memory</li> <li>DORMNT – Put the user into dormant status, with program in memory</li> <li>GETMEM – Get the size of the memory allocation</li> <li>SETMEM – Set the size of the memory allocation</li> <li>TSSFIL – Get access to the CTSS system files on the disk</li> <li>USRFIL – Change back to user's own directory</li> <li>GETBRK – Get the instruction location counter at quit</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Programming_languages">Programming languages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Compatible_Time-Sharing_System&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Programming languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>CTSS at first had only an assembler, <a href="/wiki/FORTRAN_Assembly_Program" class="mw-redirect" title="FORTRAN Assembly Program">FAP</a>, and a compiler, MAD. Also, <a href="/wiki/Fortran#FORTRAN_II" title="Fortran">Fortran II</a> code could be translated into MAD code by using MADTRN. Later half of the system was written in MAD. Later there were other programming languages including <a href="/wiki/COMIT" title="COMIT">COMIT II</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)" title="Lisp (programming language)">LISP 1.5</a> and a version of <a href="/wiki/ALGOL" title="ALGOL">ALGOL</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="File_system">File system</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Compatible_Time-Sharing_System&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: File system"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Each user had their own <a href="/wiki/Directory_(computing)" title="Directory (computing)">directory</a>, and there were also shared directories for groups of people with the same "problem number". Each <a href="/wiki/Computer_file" title="Computer file">file</a> had two names, the second indicating its type as did the <a href="/wiki/Filename_extension" title="Filename extension">extension</a> in later system. At first, each file could have one of four modes: temporary, permanent, read-only class 1, and read-only class 2. Read-only class 1 allowed the user to change the mode of the file. Files could also be symbolically linked between directories. A directory listing by <i>listf</i>: </p> <pre> 10 FILES 20 TRACKS USED DATE NAME MODE NO. TRACKS 5/20/63 MAIN MAD P 15 5/17/63 DPFA SYMTB P 1 5/17/63 DPFA BSS P 1 5/17/63 DPFA FAP P 2 </pre> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Peripherals">Peripherals</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Compatible_Time-Sharing_System&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Peripherals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Input-output hardware was mostly standard IBM <a href="/wiki/Peripheral" title="Peripheral">peripherals</a>. These included six data channels connecting to: </p> <ul><li>Printers, <a href="/wiki/Punched_card" title="Punched card">punched card</a> readers and punches</li> <li><a href="/wiki/IBM_729" title="IBM 729">IBM 729</a> tape drives, an <a href="/wiki/IBM_1301" class="mw-redirect" title="IBM 1301">IBM 1301</a> disk storage, later upgraded to an <a href="/wiki/IBM_1302" class="mw-redirect" title="IBM 1302">IBM 1302</a>, with 38 million word capacity</li> <li>An <a href="/wiki/IBM_7320" class="mw-redirect" title="IBM 7320">IBM 7320</a> drum memory with 186K words that could load a 32K-word memory bank in one second (later upgraded to 0.25 seconds)</li> <li>Two custom high-speed vector graphics displays<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>An <a href="/w/index.php?title=IBM_7750&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="IBM 7750 (page does not exist)">IBM 7750</a> transmission control unit capable of supporting up to 112 <a href="/wiki/Teleprinter" title="Teleprinter">teleprinter</a> terminals, including <a href="/wiki/IBM_1050" title="IBM 1050">IBM 1050</a> <a href="/wiki/Selectric" class="mw-redirect" title="Selectric">Selectrics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Teletype_Corporation#Teletype_Corporation" title="Teletype Corporation">Model 35s</a>. Some of the terminals were located remotely, and the system could be accessed using the public <a href="/wiki/Telex" title="Telex">Telex and TWX</a> networks.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Influences">Influences</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Compatible_Time-Sharing_System&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Influences"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>CTSS was described in a paper presented at the 1962 <a href="/wiki/Joint_Computer_Conference" title="Joint Computer Conference">Spring Joint Computer Conference</a>, and greatly influenced the design of other early time-sharing systems. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Wilkes" title="Maurice Wilkes">Maurice Wilkes</a> witnessed CTSS and the design of the <a href="/wiki/Titan_(1963_computer)" title="Titan (1963 computer)">Titan Supervisor</a> was inspired by that.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie" title="Dennis Ritchie">Dennis Ritchie</a> wrote in 1977 that UNIX could be seen as a "modern implementation" of CTSS.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Multics, which was also developed by Project MAC, was started in the 1960s as a successor to CTSS – and in turn inspired the development of Unix in 1969. One of the technical terms inherited by these systems from CTSS is <i><a href="/wiki/Daemon_(computing)" title="Daemon (computing)">daemon</a></i>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Incompatible_Timesharing_System" title="Incompatible Timesharing System">Incompatible Timesharing System</a> (ITS), another early, revolutionary, and influential MIT time-sharing system, was produced by people who disagreed with the direction taken by CTSS, and later, Multics; the name was a <a href="/wiki/Parody" title="Parody">parody</a> of "CTSS", as later the name "Unix" was a parody of "Multics".<sup id="cite_ref-LevyWL_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LevyWL-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> CTSS and ITS file systems have a number of design elements in common. Both have an M.F.D. (master file directory) and one or more U.F.D. (user file directories). Neither of them have nested directories (sub-directories). Both have file names consisting of two names which are a maximum of six-characters long. Both support linked files.<sup id="cite_ref-ctsspg69_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ctsspg69-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Compatible_Time-Sharing_System&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system)" title="PLATO (computer system)">PLATO (computer system)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_operating_systems" title="Timeline of operating systems">Timeline of operating systems</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Time-sharing_system_evolution" title="Time-sharing system evolution">Time-sharing system evolution</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Compatible_Time-Sharing_System&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-50th-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-50th_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-50th_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-50th_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-50th_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFWaldenVan_Vleck2011" class="citation web cs1">Walden, David; <a href="/wiki/Tom_Van_Vleck" title="Tom Van Vleck">Van Vleck, Tom</a>, eds. 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Springer. pp. 103–108. <a href="/wiki/CiteSeerX_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="CiteSeerX (identifier)">CiteSeerX</a> <span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.14.9546">10.1.1.14.9546</a></span>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-387-21821-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-387-21821-2"><bdi>978-0-387-21821-2</bdi></a>. <q>Sir Maurice, as he is known today, had been inspired by CTSS to create a time-sharing system</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=The+Titan+Influence&rft.btitle=Computer+Systems&rft.pages=103-108&rft.pub=Springer&rft.date=2004&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fciteseerx.ist.psu.edu%2Fviewdoc%2Fsummary%3Fdoi%3D10.1.1.14.9546%23id-name%3DCiteSeerX&rft.isbn=978-0-387-21821-2&rft.aulast=Hartley&rft.aufirst=David&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACompatible+Time-Sharing+System" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFraser2004" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Alexander_G._Fraser" title="Alexander G. 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Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly Media. pp. 85–102. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4493-8839-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4493-8839-3"><bdi>978-1-4493-8839-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Winners+and+Losers&rft.btitle=Hackers%3A+Heroes+of+the+Computer+Revolution+-+25th+Anniversary+Edition&rft.place=Sebastopol%2C+California&rft.pages=85-102&rft.edition=1st&rft.pub=O%27Reilly+Media&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-1-4493-8839-3&rft.aulast=Levy&rft.aufirst=Steven&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACompatible+Time-Sharing+System" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Compatible_Time-Sharing_System&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFano1964" class="citation web cs1">Fano, Robert M. (1964). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/mit/lcs/tr/MIT-LCS-TR-012.pdf">"The MAC System: A Progress Report"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>BitSavers.Informatik.Uni-Stuttgart.de</i>. MIT Project MAC.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=BitSavers.Informatik.Uni-Stuttgart.de&rft.atitle=The+MAC+System%3A+A+Progress+Report&rft.date=1964&rft.aulast=Fano&rft.aufirst=Robert+M.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fbitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de%2Fpdf%2Fmit%2Flcs%2Ftr%2FMIT-LCS-TR-012.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACompatible+Time-Sharing+System" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSaltzer1965" class="citation web cs1">Saltzer, Jerome H. (1965). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/mit/lcs/tr/MIT-LCS-TR-016.pdf">"CTSS Technical Notes"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>BitSavers.Informatik.Uni-Stuttgart.de</i>. MIT Project MAC.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=BitSavers.Informatik.Uni-Stuttgart.de&rft.atitle=CTSS+Technical+Notes&rft.date=1965&rft.aulast=Saltzer&rft.aufirst=Jerome+H.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fbitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de%2Fpdf%2Fmit%2Flcs%2Ftr%2FMIT-LCS-TR-016.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACompatible+Time-Sharing+System" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSaltzer1964" class="citation web cs1">Saltzer, Jerome H. (1964). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/AH.9.01.html">"Manuscript Typing and Editing"</a>. <i>Web.MIT.edu</i>. MIT Computation Center.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Web.MIT.edu&rft.atitle=Manuscript+Typing+and+Editing&rft.date=1964&rft.aulast=Saltzer&rft.aufirst=Jerome+H.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fweb.mit.edu%2FSaltzer%2Fwww%2Fpublications%2FAH.9.01.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACompatible+Time-Sharing+System" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Compatible_Time-Sharing_System&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://purl.umn.edu/107476">Oral history interview with John McCarthy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Babbage_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Babbage Institute">Charles Babbage Institute</a>, University of Minnesota. Discusses computer developments at MIT including time sharing.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://purl.umn.edu/107230">Oral history interview with Fernando J. Corbató</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Babbage_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Babbage Institute">Charles Babbage Institute</a>, University of Minnesota. Discusses many computer developments at MIT including CTSS.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://purl.umn.edu/107281">Oral history interview with Robert M. Fano</a>, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Discusses computer developments at MIT including CTSS.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.multicians.org/thvv/7094.html">The IBM 7094 and CTSS</a>: personal memoir of <a href="/wiki/Tom_Van_Vleck" title="Tom Van Vleck">Tom Van Vleck</a>, a system programmer on CTSS</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.piercefuller.com/library/ctss.html">CTSS Source</a> version MIT8C0 in Paul Pierce's collection.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cozx.com/dpitts/ibm7090.html">Dave Pitts' IBM 7094 support</a> – Includes a <a href="/wiki/License-free_software" title="License-free software">license-free</a> simulator, cross assembler and linker that can be used to build and run CTSS.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/rcornwell/ctss">Richard Cornwell's CTSS sources and binaries</a>, which run on <a href="/wiki/SIMH" title="SIMH">SIMH</a>. 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