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• CTSS /C-T-S-S/ n. Compatible Time-Sharing System.
  An early (1963) experiment in the design of interactive time-sharing operating systems, ancestral to Multics, Unix, and ITS....
• CTSS: /C-T-S-S/ n. Compatible Time-Sharing System. An early (1963) experiment in the design of interactive time-sharing operating systems, ancestral to {{Multics}}, {{UNIX}}, and {{ITS}}.
  The name {{ITS}} (Incompatible Time-sharing System) was a hack on CTSS, meant both as a joke and to express some basic differences in philosophy about the way I/O services should be presented to user programs....
• OS/2 for PS/2--Half an operating system for half a computer.
• Multics /muhl'tiks/ n. [from "MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service"] An early time-sharing operating system co-designed by a consortium including MIT
  GE, and Bell Laboratories as a successor to CTSS....
• TWENEX /twe'neks/ n. The TOPS-20 operating system by DEC -- the second proprietary OS for the PDP-10 -- preferred by most PDP-10 hackers over TOPS-10 (that i
  by those who were not ITS or WAITS partisans). TOPS-20 began in 1969 as Bolt, Beranek &...
• Unix, n: A computer operating system, once thought to be flabby and impotent, that now shows a surprising interest in making off with the workstation harem.
• This computer utilizes the new EUNUCHS hardware and operating system.
  (Extremely Useless, Never Up, Computer Hardware Softwre system)...
• wheel wars n. [Stanford University] A period in larval stage during which student hackers hassle each ot to log each other out of the system
  delete each other's files, and otherwise wreak havoc, usually at the expense of the lesser users....
• crash 1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the system (q.
  v., sense 1), esp. of magnetic disk drives (the term originally described what happens when the air gap of a hard disk collapses)....