Multiple Console Time Sharing System
Developer | General Motors Research Laboratories |
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OS family | Multics |
Working state | Historic |
Initial release | 1970s |
Available in | English |
Platforms | Control Data Corporation STAR-100 |
Kernel type | N/A |
Default user interface | Command-line interface |
License | none |
The Multiple Console Time Sharing System (MCTS) was an operating system developed by General Motors Research Laboratories in the 1970s for the Control Data Corporation STAR-100 supercomputer. MCTS was built to support GM's computer-aided design (CAD) applications.[1]
MCTS was designed starting in 1968. It was written in a high-level systems programming language "Malus", a dialect of PL/I. A superset of Malus called Apple became the primary application language.[2]
MCTS was based on Multics.[3] All access to data was thru the virtual memory system. Only the system paging support module was concerned about the physical location of the data.[2]
See also
- GM-NAA I/O
- SHARE Operating System
- Timeline of operating systems
References
- ^ Elshoff, James L.; Ward, Mitchel R. (January 1976). "The MCTS operating system". ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review. 10 (1): 18–38. doi:10.1145/775314.775317.
- ^ a b Brown, R.R; Elshoff, J.L.; Ward, M.R. (1 Oct 1975). "The GM Multiple Console Time Sharing System". ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review. 9 (4): 7–17. doi:10.1145/775310.7753 (inactive 2024-07-05). Retrieved July 1, 2024.
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Further reading
- Krull, F.N. (Fall 1994). "The origin of computer graphics within General Motors" (PDF). IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 16 (3). IEEE: 40–56. doi:10.1109/MAHC.1994.298419.
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