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History of the CAL Timesharing System (2023)

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The CAL Timesharing System (CAL TSS) was developed at the University of California at Berkeley between 1968 and 1971 to provide interactive computing for research and instruction. It ran on a mainframe computer, the Control Data Corporation 6400, and was one of the earliest systems to use capabilities for protection. Using our memories, archival records, and files preserved by McJones that are part of a donation to the Computer History Museum, we discuss the origin of the project, development of the software, and the brief experience using the system before it was shut down in May 1972.

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Authors & Contributors
Grad, Burton
Alberts, Gerard
Campbell-Kelly, Martin
Cassier, Maurice
Epstein, Bob
McDonald, Christopher
Journals
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Contemporary European History
Journal of the History of Biology
Physics in Perspective
Publishers
LIT Verlag
MIT Press
The MIT Press
Concepts
Computers and computing
Software
Computer industry
Technology
Business and commerce
Databases
People
Grad, Burton
Johnson, Luanne
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Berkeley (California, U.S.)
India
Tunisia
Europe
Germany
Institutions
University of California, Berkeley
Rockefeller Foundation
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S.)
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
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