23 Nov
2020
23 Nov
'20
12:41 p.m.
Dennis Boone writes:
This was also late 60s as far as I know. The documents are dated, and the
first one is in June 1968.
It was a fully functional system when I first started using it. Heinz may
be able to say more about it if he remembers.
In many respects it wasn't a hugely interesting system in itself as much
as it was a platform for the development of many other interesting
technologies.
Jon
516-TSS is a
little-known but groundbreaking and influential
operating system that was developed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Can you put any dates to the creation / development of this system?
Even some estimate of its maturity when you first saw it would be of
interest.
There was a timeshared os for the Series 16 developed by a group at Tech
Square, I think the NASA center that was there, late '60s. It involved
some custom memory mapping hardware. The os became the basis of Prime's
offering in the early 70s.
De