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I did not envisage the sort of console system which is now so confusingly called time-sharing.
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To establish the context of the present work, it is informative to trace the development of time-sharing at MIT. Shortly after the first paper on time-shared computers by C. Strachey at the June 1959 UNESCO Information Processing conference, H.M. Teager and J. McCarthy delivered an unpublished paper "Time-Shared Program Testing" at the August 1959 ACM Meeting.
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Almost immediately after the 1965 meeting, Donald Davies conceived of the details of a store-and-forward packet switching system
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a good case can be made that UNIX is in essence a modern implementation of MIT's CTSS system
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