Terminal Oriented Real Time Operating System definition
<operating system> (TORTOS) An operating system developed
from MVT at Health Sciences Computing, UCLA by Dr. Patrica
Britt from the late 1960s to the mid 1970s.
Dr. Britt was a senior scientist at IBM, who become the
Assistant Director of HSCF.
TORTOS pre-dated TSO and provided batch, real-time and
time sharing on an IBM 360/91.
(2004-07-02)
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