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  • Re: ancient time sharingSelf-hosting and the 6502

    From John Levine@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, April 05, 2026 02:27:21
    According to Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com>:
    On 4/4/26 14:55, John Levine wrote:
    Did any timesharing OSes from IBM enjoy much success? Maybe TSO? Did
    that do multiuser, without the need for VMs?

    Obviously VM/CMS. Non-IBM MTS was fairly popular in the education community.

    Single language APL\360 was also pretty popular, supporting a lot of interactive
    users on a 360/50.

    IBM also had Conversational Programming System (CPS) that supported
    BASIC and PL/I. Don't know about FORTRAN.

    That was QUIKTRAN.


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