Multiple Console Time Sharing System

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GM Multiple Console Time Sharing System (MCTS)
DeveloperGeneral Motors Research Laboratories
OS familyMultics
Working stateHistoric
Initial release1970s
Available inEnglish
PlatformsControl Data Corporation STAR-100
Kernel typeN/A
Default
user interface		Command-line interface
Licensenone

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 based on Multics.[2]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Elshoff, James L., and Ward, Mitchel R. The MCTS operating system. SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. 10, 1 (January 1976), 18-38. DOI=10.1145/775314.775317
  2. ^ Krull, pg. 54

Further reading[]

  • F.N. Krull, "The origin of computer graphics within General Motors", Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE, Volume 16 Issue 3, (Fall 1994) pp.40
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