The HP Virtual Server Environment: Making the Adaptive Enterprise Vision a Reality in Your Datacenter

Chapter Overview

The Compatible Time Share System (CTSS) was one of the first time-sharing operating systems invented. The largely forgotten but influential operating system was developed at MIT and first operated in a time-sharing environment in 1961. Its notable accomplishments include being one of the first operating systems to have interuser electronic mail and computerized text editing capabilities. But CTSS's most significant contribution to the computing industry was its demonstration that time-sharing was viable.^[1] Time-sharing is an operating system feature that allows multiple users or tasks to be running concurrently on a single hardware platform. Without time-sharing, even the most powerful computers available were limited to a single ...