DocumentCode
852932
Title
The Genesis of the Tenet 210: An Early Time-Sharing System
Author
Runge, Chuck
Volume
30
Issue
3
fYear
2008
Firstpage
78
Lastpage
81
Abstract
TENET was the only company that succeeded in building and selling a mid-to-large-scale, general-purpose time-sharing product. TENET was more about advancing the business of time-sharing than about computer science, computer architecture, and invention. It combined practical ideas of others with many of its own to produce a system that was cost-effective, user friendly, and easy to install, operate, maintain, and support. The Tenet 210 was intended to be an in-house system that did not require an army of systems engineers to support it and its users.
Keywords
history; time-sharing programs; time-sharing systems; TENET company; Tenet 210; time-sharing system; Buildings; Business; Computer architecture; Control systems; Hardware; Joining processes; Operating systems; Programming profession; Registers; Time sharing computer systems;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1058-6180
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MAHC.2008.53
Filename
4617921
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