TSS/8
1968 operating system for the PDP-8 computer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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TSS/8 is a discontinued time-sharing operating system co-written by Don Witcraft and John Everett at Digital Equipment Corporation in 1967. DEC also referred to it as Timeshared-8 and later the EduSystem 50.[3]:āp.2-15ā
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Developer | Digital Equipment Corporation |
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Written in | ALGOL, BASIC, FOCAL, Fortran D, PAL-D |
Working state | Discontinued |
Source model | Closed source |
Initial release | 1968; 56 years ago (1968) |
Latest release | 8.24 / January 1975; 49 years ago (1975-01)[1][2] |
Platforms | PDP-8 starting with the PDP-8I model |
Kernel type | Time-sharing operating systems |
Influenced by | TSS/360 |
Default user interface | Command-line interface |
License | Proprietary |
Succeeded by | PS/8 and OS/8 |
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The operating system runs on the 12-bit PDP-8 computer starting with the PDP-8I model and was released in 1968.