Time-sharing operating system (CTSS, Multics)
Sistema operativo de tiempo compartido (CTSS y Multics)
- Date
- 1961 · confidence high
- Place
- MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Credited to
- Fernando Corbató (MIT); Multics with Bell Labs and General Electric (1965-1969)
- People
- 👤 Fernando Corbató1926–2019
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
System that shares the processor among many users connected by terminal, giving each one the illusion of their own machine. It introduced passwords, hierarchical file systems and interactive computing.
What it led to
- Computing as a shared service, a forerunner of the cloud
- Unix and multi-user operating systems
- Terminal networks and ARPANET
Built on
- Magnetic-core memory1951
- Hard disk drive (IBM RAMAC)1956
- IBM 7090
- hardware interrupts