WAITS
WAITS was a heavily-modified variant of Digital Equipment Corporation's Monitor operating system (later renamed to, and better known as TOPS-10) for the PDP-6 and PDP-10 mainframe computers, used at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) from the mid 1960s up until 1991; the mainframe computer it ran on also went by the name of "SAIL".
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