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Source Code for CTSS released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the but-what-will-run-it dept.

Mainframes ROCK! writes "The source code for the Compatible Time-Sharing System, CTSS, has been released, and the here is the source code. CTSS was one of the first time-sharing operating systems and a direct ancestor of Linux. Developed at MIT in the 1960's on a specially modified IBM 7094 system.; it was developed at Project MAC at MIT. CTSS was first published, as well as operated in a time-sharing environment, in 1961; in addition, it was the system with the first computerized text formatting utility, and one of the very first to have inter-user electronic mail."

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  1. Dont Say Ancestor of Linux... by DiS[EnDeR] · · Score: 0, Redundant

    SCO WILL SUE FOR SURE!!!

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    Harder.. Better.. Faster.. Stronger
  2. Crud. by Roadkills-R-Us · · Score: 0, Redundant

    My port of X11 doesn't count? I was especially proud of the frame buffer optimaztions; I haven't seen anyone else run ico this fast on a Teletype 33 KSR...

    Oh, well. I'll publish the speed in xstones when the benchmark finishes running in a couple of years.

  3. It is? by stratjakt · · Score: 1, Redundant

    CTSS was one of the first time-sharing operating systems and a direct ancestor of Linux

    I thought we were trying to fight Darl et al on the grounds that Linux is completely free of any legacy UNIX code.

    It's a clone, not a descendant.

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  4. In a related story by chinton · · Score: 0, Redundant

    SCO filed suit against MIT for retroactive intellectual property theft.