The Multiple Console Time Sharing System, usually shortened to MCTS, was an operating system built by General Motors Research Laboratories in the 1970s for the Control Data Corporation STAR-100 supercomputer. General Motors wanted it to support its computer-aided design applications, and design work began in 1968. It was written in a high-level systems programming language called Malus, a dialect of PL/I, and a superset of Malus named Apple became the main application language. MCTS was modelled on Multics: every access to data went through the virtual memory system, so only the system paging support module needed to know where data physically lived.
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MCTS was designed starting in 1968.
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was an operating system developed by General Motors Research Laboratories in the 1970s
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developed by General Motors Research Laboratories
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for the Control Data Corporation STAR-100 supercomputer
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was an operating system developed by General Motors Research Laboratories
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