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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) : [ foldoc ]


  CTSS
       
          Compatible Timesharing System

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) : [ jargon ]


  CTSS /C-T-S-S/ n. Compatible Time-Sharing System. An early (1963)
     experiment in the design of interactive time-sharing operating systems,
     {Multics" rel="nofollow">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 Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) : [ vera ]


  CTSS
       Compatible Time Sharing System (Unix, predecessor, OS, MIT)

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) : [ vera ]


  CTSS
       Cray TimeSharing System (OS, Cray, LLNL)

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