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From: turner@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: The truth about cat
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Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 02:00:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 22 02:00:00 1987
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Nf-From: uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu!turner    Oct 22 01:00:00 1987


> 
> Written  7:51 am  Oct 19, 1987 by mccarthy@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
> >Written  3:47 am  Oct 17, 1987 by dmr@alice.UUCP (Dennis Ritchie)
> 
> >daemon	dates to CTSS whence it came to Multics and Unix.
>                        ^^^^
> What are you referring to when you use the abbreviation CTSS?  Around
> here it stands for "CRAY Time-Sharing System"
> ...
> I'm not saying you got it wrong, I'm saying I'd like to know what you're
> using CTSS to stand for.
> _____
> D. J. McCarthy

CTSS (I assume) stands for Compatible Time Sharing System, an OS
designed at MIT circa 1962.  It ran on an IBM 7090 and was quite a
milestone in timesharing systems.  It supported up to 32 users
interactively and consumed only 5K 36 bit words.  Pretty amazing what
you can do with limited resources, eh?.  (The 7090 had only 32K words
to work with.)
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