Influences
Multics, which was also developed by Project MAC, was started in the 1960s as a successor to CTSS, for future use in multiple-access computing. Multics inspired the development of Unix in 1969. One of technical terms inherited by these systems from CTSS is daemon.
ITS, the Incompatible Timesharing System, another early, revolutionary, and influential MIT time-sharing system, was produced by people who disagreed with the direction taken by Multics; the name was a parody of CTSS, as the name of Unix was later a parody of Multics.
Read more about this topic: Compatible Time-Sharing System
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—Tennessee Williams (1914–1983)
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