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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | CTSS /C-T-S-S/ n. Compatible Time-Sharing System. An early (1963) experiment in the design of interactive time-sharing operating systems, ancestral to {Multics, {Unix, and {ITS. The name {ITS (Incompatible Time-sharing System) was a hack on CTSS, meant both as a joke and to express some basic differences in philosophy about the way I/O services should be presented to user programs. Source: Jargon File. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Although CTSS was not an influential operating system in its technical detail, it was very influential in showing that time-sharing was viable, in the new applications for computers which were first instantiated there, and because of its successor, Multics, which all modern operating systems are intellectually descended from.
In addition to e-mail and text processing, Louis Pouzin created a facility called RUNCOM for CTSS. This took a collection of commands contained in a file and executed them; this is the direct ancestor of the Unix shell script. It also allowed parameter substitution.
CTSS was developed on the IBM 7094 mainframe computer.
Multics, which was also developed by Project MAC, was started in the 1960s as a successor to CTSS, for future use in multiple-access computing. Multics, infamously, was the operating system that led to the development of Unix in 1970.
ITS, the Incompatible Timesharing System, another early, revolutionary, and influential MIT time-sharing system, was produced by people who disagreed with the direction taken by Multics; the name was a hack on CTSS, as the name of Unix was later a hack on Multics
Alternative Meanings
CTSS also stands for Cray Time Sharing System, a separate system developed
for Cray computers. See also
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "CTSS."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CTSS | English | Compatible Time-Sharing System | N/A |
CTSS | French | Système d'exploitation temps partagé | Computing |
CTSS | Greek | συμβατό σύστημα χρονομερισμού | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: CTSS |
| Specialty definitions using "CTSS": Compatible Timesharing System ♦ IBM 7090, IFP ♦ Mathematical Analysis without Programming ♦ New Storage System ♦ RC, rc file ♦ Symbolic Mathematical Laboratory ♦ third generation computer. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ctss | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "CTSS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | CTSS-timeshare-operativsystem (compatible timesharing system), CTSS-operativsystem (compatible timesharing system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | compatibel time-sharingsysteem (compatible timesharing system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | yhteensopiva aikajakojärjestelmä (compatible timesharing system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | CTSS, système d'exploitation temps partagé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | CTSS (compatible timesharing system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | CTSS (compatible timesharing system), συμβατό σύστημα χρονομερισμού (compatible timesharing system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ctssay sistema de tempo partilhado compatível (compatible timesharing system). (various references) sistema de compartición en el tiempo compatible (compatible timesharing system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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