A report on Compatible Time-Sharing System and TYPSET and RUNOFF

Preamble of two version of the CTSS scheduler, one in MAD and one in FAP
Diagram of the Intrex running on CTSS

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

- TYPSET and RUNOFF

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

- Compatible Time-Sharing System
Preamble of two version of the CTSS scheduler, one in MAD and one in FAP

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Line printer output following a MAD compiler error on an IBM 704 computer at the University of Michigan, c. 1960

MAD (programming language)

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Programming language and compiler for the IBM 704 and later the IBM 709, IBM 7090, IBM 7040, UNIVAC 1107, UNIVAC 1108, Philco 210-211, and eventually the IBM S/370 mainframe computers.

Programming language and compiler for the IBM 704 and later the IBM 709, IBM 7090, IBM 7040, UNIVAC 1107, UNIVAC 1108, Philco 210-211, and eventually the IBM S/370 mainframe computers.

Line printer output following a MAD compiler error on an IBM 704 computer at the University of Michigan, c. 1960

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.

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).

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Multics

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Influential early time-sharing operating system based on the concept of a single-level memory.

Influential early time-sharing operating system based on the concept of a single-level memory.

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Multics Commands reference manual

runoff (rf)

Dennis Ritchie wrote that the design of UNIX was influenced by CTSS