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| Company / developer | Universities / Institutions |
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| Working state | Historic |
| Initial release | 1967 |
| Supported platforms | IBM System/360 |
| Website | MTS |
| History of IBM mainframe operating systems |
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Michigan Terminal System (MTS) is an operating system for the IBM System/360 and its successors that was developed jointly by the following institutions:
- University of Michigan
- Wayne State University
- Simon Fraser University
- University of Alberta
- University of British Columbia
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Durham University
- University of Newcastle upon Tyne
A copy of MTS was also sent to the University of Sarajevo, though whether or not this was ever installed was not reported back to the MTS community, and NASA also purchased a copy in order to run the CONFER conferencing system.
Popular programs developed for MTS include MAD (programming language), Micro DBMS, an early relational database management system, the FORMAT and TEXTFORM text formatting programs, and Robert Parnes's CONFER conferencing system.
MTS doesn't implement directories, but there is a de facto two-tier grouping of files owing to the inclusion in a file's name of its owner's four-character MTS callsign.
See also
- IBM Time Sharing Option (TSO)
- Multics
- MUSIC/SP
- time-sharing
External references
- Michigan Terminal System overview by Dave Mills
- Michigan Terminal System
- MTS History by Dan Boulet for Everything2.com
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