From: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] 516-TSS Documents
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 22:41:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202011230641.0AN6fvoS194686@darkstar.fourwinds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201123040045.C732E18E749@yagi.h-net.msu.edu>
Dennis Boone writes:
> > 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
This was also late 60s as far as I know. The documents are dated, and the
first one is in June 1968.
It was a fully functional system when I first started using it. Heinz may
be able to say more about it if he remembers.
In many respects it wasn't a hugely interesting system in itself as much
as it was a platform for the development of many other interesting
technologies.
Jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-23 6:42 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
2020-11-23 6:41 ` Jon Steinhart [this message]
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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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