Multiple Console Time Sharing System

Operating system
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 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 modile was concerned about the physical location of the data.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2024 (link)
  3. ^ Krull, pg. 54

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