Source Code for CTSS released

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 23, 2004 @08:21AM 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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It is? by stratjakt · 2004-09-23 08:45 · 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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