Artifact Details

Title

Timesharing and Remote Processing Services meeting session #1 : technology : the early years

Catalog Number

102702883

Type

Document

Description

After the attendees introduced themselves and gave a brief summary of their backgrounds, the discussion focused on the technological foundations for the timesharing and remote processing services industry. The participants described the initial developments which made timesharing a practical operating system approach. They reviewed the technological breakthroughs in hardware and software that made timesharing and remote processing services economically viable approaches. They covered the differences among the various developments. Primary focus was on the development at UC Berkeley with SDS which led to the formation of Tymshare and Comshare and the work at the IBM Cambridge Scientific Center on CP-40 and then CP-67 which led to the formation of National CSS and IDC.

Date

2009-06-02

Contributor

Bayles, Dick, Participant
Belvin, Frank, Participant
Brook, Chris, Participant
Crandall, Rick, Participant
Grad, Burt, Moderator
Haigh, Thomas, Participant
Hardy, Ann, Participant
Hardy, Norm, Participant
Humphries, Mike, Participant
Jerger, Doug, Participant
Johnson, Luanne, Participant
LaHay, Edward, Participant
Lowenstein, Dick, Participant
McDonald, Chris, Participant
McJones, Paul, Participant
Myers, Gary, Participant
Rawlings, Nicholas, Participant
Ross, Kenneth, Participant
Schmidt, Dave, Participant
Spicer, Dag, Editor
Stein, Jeffery, Participant
Wyman, Mike, Participant

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

Mountain View, California

Extent

35 p.

Format

PDF

Copyright Holder

Computer History Museum

Category

Transcription

Subject

Compatible Timesharing System (CTSS); Comshare; Conversational Monitor System (CMS).; Dartmouth College; DEC PDP-1; Corbató, Fernando; General Electric (GE); IBM System/360 (Computer); IBM System/360 Model 67 (S/360-67); IBM System/370 (Computer); McCarthy, John; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Multics (Software); Online Transaction Processing (OLTP); Project Mac; Remote Job Entry (RJE); SABRE; Scientific Data Systems (SDS); Time Sharing System (TSS); Tymshare; University of California, Berkeley; University of Michigan

Collection Title

Oral history collection

Credit

Software Industry Special Interest Group

Lot Number

X5386.2009