A report on TYPSET and RUNOFF, Compatible Time-Sharing System and MAD (programming language)

It was widely used to teach programming at colleges and universities during the 1960s and played a minor role in the development of CTSS, Multics, and the Michigan Terminal System computer operating systems.

The original RUNOFF type-setting program for CTSS was written by Jerome H. Saltzer circa 1964.

Bob Morris and Doug McIlroy translated that from MAD to BCPL.

Programs written in MAD included MAIL, RUNOFF, one of the first text processing systems, and several other utilities all under Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS).

CTSS had one of the first computerized text editing and formatting utilities, called TYPSET and RUNOFF (the successors of MEMO, MODIFY and DITTO).

CTSS at first had only an assembler, FAP, and a compiler, MAD.