PDP1 3634
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some more history of ncss and time-sharing
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tss-360 was the original "designated" operating system for the 360-67. it was never very succesful. in anticipation of virtual memory, the cambridge science center built cp-40 for a custom...
privates wrote the file system for the disk, and I coded the terminal handling for the 930 (TTY and IBM1050,) together with the drivers for the communications pipe between the 930 and the 9300. Bob wrote the 9300's dispatcher. By '67, I had a small group of programers working for me on what, by then, was a running system, with 16 simultaneous users plus a batch stream. PE loved it. (Around the same time, some folks at Berkeley were playing with an SDS940. My team was by then about 5 people, including May Guimond and Nick Pisarro, Jr - though Nick was still finishing up at RPI. I was the hiring manager for Bob and his team, by then.
Our IBM salesman was privates Glazer. He'd been following both our work and that of the Cambridge CP67-CMS team at IBM, and when we started looking at the follow-on machine to the 9300 (SDS had come out with its Sigma line,) he had us (me, Bob, and privates Orenstein) run up to Cambridge to see CP-CMS. We fell in love. We met privates Bayles and Mike Field (they showed us what they had) and we pulled them aside to tell them that we were going to make their toy into something spectacular. They hardly believed us.
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