Software: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 interfaceCommand-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.; Ward, Mitchel R. (January 1976). "The MCTS operating system". ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review 10 (1): 18-38. doi:10.1145/775314.775317. 
  2. Krull, pg. 54

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