A report on Multics and TYPSET and RUNOFF
Morris and McIlroy then moved the BCPL version to Multics when the IBM 7094 on which CTSS ran was being shut down.
- TYPSET and RUNOFFrunoff (rf)
- Multics2 related topics with Alpha
Compatible Time-Sharing System
0 linksThe first general purpose time-sharing operating system.
The first general purpose time-sharing operating system.
CTSS had one of the first computerized text editing and formatting utilities, called TYPSET and RUNOFF (the successors of MEMO, MODIFY and DITTO).
MIT Computation Center staff member Louis Pouzin created for CTSS a command called RUNCOM, which executed a list of commands contained in a file. RUNCOM also provided for parameter substitution. He later created a design for the Multics shell that was implemented by Glenda Schroeder which in turn inspired Unix shell scripts.
Jerry Saltzer
0 linksAmerican computer scientist.
American computer scientist.
In the later 1960s and early 1970s, he was one of the team leaders of the Multics operating system project.
RUNOFF, a very early text-formatting program which was the basis for roff and nroff