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    The BBN Time-Sharing System was an early time-sharing system created at Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) for the PDP-1 computer. It began operation in September...
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    → NOS → NOS/VE Dartmouth Time-Sharing System (DTSS) → GE Time-sharing → GEnie DEC PDP-6 Time-sharing Monitor → TOPS-10 → BBN TENEX → DEC TOPS-20 DEC TSS/8...
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  • time-sharing systems, providing links to major early time-sharing operating systems, showing their subsequent evolution. The meaning of the term time-sharing...
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  • the first timesharing systems, the BBN Time-Sharing System. In 1962, BBN would install one such time-shared information system at Massachusetts General...
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    first interactive debugger, one of the very earliest time-sharing systems (BBN Time-Sharing System), and some of the earliest computerized music. The ARPANET...
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  • University) (Atlas computer commissioned) BBN Time-Sharing System GCOS (GE's General Comprehensive Operating System, originally GECOS, General Electric Comprehensive...
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    time-sharing from Christopher Strachey at a UNESCO-sponsored conference on Information Processing in Paris in 1959. At BBN he developed the BBN Time-Sharing...
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    the very earliest time-sharing systems (Compatible Time-Sharing System, BBN Time-Sharing System, and Dartmouth Time-Sharing System). His colleague Lester...
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    earliest time-sharing systems (the Compatible Time-Sharing System in 1961, the BBN Time-Sharing System in 1962, and the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System in 1963)...
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  • PDP-1 and was used to provide a commercial time sharing service by BBN in the Boston area and later by Time Sharing Ltd. in the United Kingdom. In 1996, Leo...
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    Edward Fredkin (category All articles with vague or ambiguous time)
    the hardware to support time-sharing via the BBN Time-Sharing System. He invented and designed the first modern interrupt system, which Digital called the...
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  • electronic mail program for a single multi-user time-sharing computer running the TENEX operating system. It allowed all users of the machine to send a...
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  • operating system developed in 1969 by BBN for the PDP-10, which later formed the basis for Digital Equipment Corporation's TOPS-20 operating system. In the...
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    computer time-sharing in 1964. BBN's initial system, designed by Sheldon Boilen, supported five simultaneous users on a DEC PDP-1, all sharing one cathode-ray...
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  • The BBN Butterfly was a massively parallel computer built by Bolt, Beranek and Newman in the 1980s. It was named for the "butterfly" multi-stage switching...
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    TOPS-20 (redirect from DecSystem 20)
    DECSYSTEM-20). TOPS-20 began in 1969 as the TENEX operating system of Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) and shipped as a product by DEC starting in 1976. TOPS-20...
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  • operating systems) UNIX Time-Sharing System v1 UNIX Time-Sharing System v2 UNIX Time-Sharing System v3 UNIX Time-Sharing System v4 UNIX Time-Sharing System v5...
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  • Severo Ornstein (category Computer systems researchers)
    describes the IMP design work at Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN), the working environment of the group at BBN, his relationship with Lawrence Roberts, his interactions...
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  • which he earned his PhD., worked at BBN Technologies (BBN), then was a Research Fellow in the Intelligent Systems Laboratory of the Palo Alto Research...
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    multi-processor computer designed by BBN for use as a packet switch in the ARPANET. Its design later influenced the BBN Butterfly computer. The Pluribus had...
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    Interface Message Processors (IMPs) for the network to Bolt Beranek & Newman (BBN). The design was led by Bob Kahn who developed the first protocol for the...
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    of foreground process group. Bobrow, Daniel; Murphy, Daniel; Teitelman, W (April 1969). "Section 23.10". THE BBN - LISP SYSTEM REFERENCE MANUAL (PDF)....
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  • compiler-compiler system. The eventual implementation language was called L10. In 1970, NLS was ported to the PDP-10 computer (as modified by BBN to run the...
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    company of Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN; now Raytheon BBN), where he helped develop the TENEX operating system including the ARPANET Network Control...
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    Defense funded further research into time-sharing at MIT through Project MAC. J. C. R. Licklider, while working at BBN, proposed a computer network in his...
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  • the email systems in use today. Computer-based messaging between users of the same system became possible following the advent of time-sharing in the early...
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  • Bellevue, Washington, developed the graphics system and terrain databases. Delta Graphics was eventually bought by BBN. Perceptronics, based in Los Angeles,...
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  • some examples of scalable multiprocessor systems. However, both of these systems have a drawback; For example, BBN Butterfly does not have caches. Similarly...
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  • due to the devastating effect it had on the Internet at that time, both in overall system downtime and in psychological impact on the perception of security...
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  • station later returned to full-time English broadcasts. Three months after purchasing the station, the entire operation of BBN moved from Chesapeake, Virginia...
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