[email protected] (John McKown) writes: > TSS could be Top Secret Security - a replacement for RACF from CA. It is > still an active product. CA could likely tell you more. > > Could you possibly mean TSS/360? It was an IBM operating system for the > S/360. There was also a TSS/370. Time Sharing System is what it stood > for. Some information here: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSS/360
aka, official product for the 360/67 virtual memory (i.e. pretty much 360/65 with hardware address translation added). science center had been hoping to win project mac ... with virtual memory system. project mac (aka something of followon to ctss) went to GE & multics. the science center decided to do a virtual memory system anyway ... they tried to get 360/50 to modify with hardware address translation ... but all the spare 360/50s were going to air traffic control system ... so they had to settle for 360/40 that they modified ... and built (virtual memory, virtual machine) cp/40. when a 360/67 machine was finally available, cp/40 morphed into cp/67. folklore is that at some point, there were a 100 people working on tss/360 for every person working on cp67/cms (& something about large number of people contributing to extremely bloated software). some amount of gory details are available in melinda's virtual machine history found here: http://www.princeton.edu/~melinda/ in various formats: http://www.princeton.edu/~melinda/25paper.listing http://www.princeton.edu/~melinda/25paper.ps http://www.princeton.edu/~melinda/25paper.pdf bitsaver has some number of old tss/360 documents http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/tss/ as well as 360/67 functional characteristics http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/funcChar/ a couple recent posts mentioning CTSS: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#48 GML http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#55 GML http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#61 GML http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#69 GML other past posts mentioning science center http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech later tss/370 effort got a special deal with at&t to do a stripped down low-level tss/370 kernel (SSUP) that would have unix layered on top. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
