TSS/8

TSS/8
DeveloperDigital Equipment Corporation
Written inALGOL, BASIC, FOCAL, Fortran D, PAL-D
Working stateDiscontinued
Source modelClosed source
Initial release1968 (1968)
Latest release8.24 / January 1975 (1975-01)[1][2]
PlatformsPDP-8 starting with the PDP-8I model
Kernel typeTime-sharing operating systems
Influenced byTSS/360
Default
user interface
Command-line interface
LicenseProprietary
Succeeded byPS/8 and OS/8

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]: p.2-15 

The operating system runs on the 12-bit PDP-8 computer starting with the PDP-8I model and was released in 1968.

  1. ^ Remy van Elst (July 26, 2015). "Running TSS/8 on the DEC PiDP-8/i and SIMH". Raymii.org.
  2. ^ "PDP-8 Digital Software News" (PDF). March 1976. DEC-08-XSMAD-A-D. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  3. ^ PDP-8/E PDP-8/M & PDP-8/F Small Computer Handbook (PDF). Digital Equipment Corporation. 1973.

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