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From: Dennis Boone <drb@msu.edu>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] 516-TSS Documents
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 23:00:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201123040045.C732E18E749@yagi.h-net.msu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: (Your message of Sun, 22 Nov 2020 16:16:06 -0800.) <202011230016.0AN0G6K2158571@darkstar.fourwinds.com>

 > 516-TSS is a little-known but groundbreaking and influential
 > operating system that was developed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Can you put any dates to the creation / development of this system?
Even some estimate of its maturity when you first saw it would be of
interest.

There was a timeshared os for the Series 16 developed by a group at Tech
Square, I think the NASA center that was there, late '60s.  It involved
some custom memory mapping hardware.  The os became the basis of Prime's
offering in the early 70s.

De

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-23  4:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-23  0:16 Jon Steinhart
2020-11-23  2:18 ` Erik E. Fair
2020-11-23  3:10   ` George Michaelson
2020-11-23  4:00 ` Dennis Boone [this message]
2020-11-23  6:41   ` Jon Steinhart
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-11-23 13:42 Noel Chiappa
2020-11-19  1:29 [TUHS] 516-TSS documents Jon Steinhart
2020-11-19  3:06 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-11-19  4:54 ` Jason T
2020-11-27  2:02 ` wkt
2020-11-27  2:13   ` clemc

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