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Subject: Origins of the term ITS
From: drwho8@att.net (Gregg C Levine)
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Hello from Gregg C Levine
Can someone please enlighten me to the origins of the term, ITS? 
Someone I know, (not well!), calls it "the Incompatible Timesharing 
System". But why that? If it is really not compatible with everything, then 
why was it so popular? I'd like a location to go to to enlighten me.
Thanks!
Gregg C Levine drwho8@att.net
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drwho8@att.net (Gregg C Levine) writes:

> Someone I know, (not well!), calls it "the Incompatible Timesharing
> System".

Yes, that is correct.


> But why that? If it is really not compatible with everything, then
> why was it so popular? I'd like a location to go to to enlighten me.

Accourding to the interviews in Steven Levis "Hackers" it was a pun on
CTSS (Compatible Time Sharing System).


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The "mind" of Neil Franklin seems to have thought:

>Accourding to the interviews in Steven Levis "Hackers" it was a pun on
>CTSS (Compatible Time Sharing System).

I believe it still is.

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Brian Harvey wrote:
> The "Compatible" in CTSS refers to this compatibility with existing batch
> software.
> The "Incompatible" in ITS is just a joke about CTSS. 

Well explained.  For more on CTSS see
  http://www.multicians.org/thvv/7094.html