English Dictionary: CTSS | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
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. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
CTSS {Compatible Timesharing System} |