Talk:Time Sharing Option

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I'll have to double check my files, but I believe TSO was based in large part on a system developed at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, called WRAP. WSU discarded WRAP in favor of the MTS system developed at nearby University of Michigan, and sold WRAP to IBM.

Some refs I've found: Google's current excerpt from Memoirs of a Software Pioneer: Part 2, although the IEEEE page now shows a differnt excerpt; Google's current excerpt from An Efficient Virtual Machine Implementation by Ronald J. Srodawa ... (I don't have sub to ACM either) Philcha (talk) 19:06, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

We should briefly mention TSO/E, given beginners will still stumble over it in print. But what to say? Martin Packer 11:50, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

SFP and other "forms-based" UIs; any program products for which TSO was the main interactive vehicle (in the the 1970s GIS meant IMB's Generalized Information System query / reporting package, geog info systems were invented earlier but did not become news until the 1980s). Philcha (talk) 19:06, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

KamrocK KM-2 Carputer seems to be spam, someone may want to delete that entry and do a search to see where else its been inserted.162.136.192.1 (talk) 18:31, 27 March 2008 (UTC)