Multiple Console Time Sharing System

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search
GM Multiple Console Time Sharing System (MCTS)
DeveloperGeneral Motors Research Laboratories
OS familyMultics
Working stateHistoric
Initial release1970s
Repository
  • {{URL|example.com|optional display text}}Lua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
Available inEnglish
Supported platformsControl Data Corporation STAR-100
Kernel typeN/A
Default
user interface
Command-line interface
Licensenone
Official website{{#property:P856}}

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 designed starting in 1968. It was written in a high-level systems programming language "Malus", a dialect of PL/I. A superset of Malus called Apple became the primary application language.[2]

MCTS was based on Multics.[3] All access to data was through the virtual memory system. Only the system paging support module was concerned about the physical location of the data.[2]

See also

[edit | edit source]

References

[edit | edit source]
  1. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  2. ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  3. ^ Krull, pg. 54

Further reading

[edit | edit source]
  • Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).