The Multiple Console Time Sharing System (MCTS) was an
operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware, software resources, and provides common daemon (computing), services for computer programs.
Time-sharing operating systems scheduler (computing), schedule tasks for ef ...
developed by
General Motors Research Laboratories
General Motors Research Laboratories are the part of General Motors responsible for creation of the first known operating system ( GM-NAA I/O) in 1955 and contributed to the first mechanical heart, the Dodrill-GMR, successfully used while perfor ...
in the 1970s for the
Control Data Corporation STAR-100 supercomputer. MCTS was built to support GM's
computer-aided design (CAD) applications.
MCTS was based on
Multics
Multics ("Multiplexed Information and Computing Service") is an influential early time-sharing operating system based on the concept of a single-level memory.Dennis M. Ritchie, "The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System", Communications of ...
.
[''Krull'', pg. 54]
See also
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GM-NAA I/O
The GM-NAA I/O input/output system of General Motors and North American Aviation was the first operating system for the IBM 704 computer.
It was created in 1956 by Robert L. Patrick of General Motors Research and Owen Mock of North American ...
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SHARE Operating System
The SHARE Operating System (SOS) is an operating system introduced in 1959 by the SHARE user group. It is an improvement on the General Motors GM-NAA I/O operating system, the first operating system for the IBM 704. The main objective was to im ...
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Timeline of operating systems
This article presents a timeline of events in the history of computer operating systems from 1951 to the current day. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the History of operating systems.
1950s
* 1951
** LEO I 'Lyons Elect ...
References
Further reading
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Discontinued operating systems
Multics-like
Proprietary operating systems
Time-sharing operating systems
Supercomputer operating systems
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