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2 unusual facts about Universal Time-Sharing System


Universal Time-Sharing System

Much earlier Honeywell had broken the Eckert-Mauchly patents that claimed to cover all forms of computing.

CP-6 was a command line oriented system, no GUI interface (as GUIs had only just been invented at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)).


19367 Pink Floyd

Its previous perihelion passage occurred on December 23, 2004 at 9h00 UT.

2010 Jupiter impact event

On 20 August 2010 UT, yet another flash event was detected on Jupiter.

93 Minerva

On August 16, 2009, at 13:36 UT, the Keck Observatory's adaptive optics system revealed that the asteroid 93 Minerva possesses 2 small moons.

Command-line interface

Around 1964 Louis Pouzin introduced the concept and the name shell in Multics, building on earlier, simpler facilities in the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS).

IBM CP-40

This would avoid the complexity and overhead of running a multi-user system like CTSS.

Molad

The molad amiti (true molad), which has no relevance to the Hebrew calendar, is the time at which the actual astronomical lunar conjunction occurs, often expressed either as the mean solar time in Jerusalem (Universal Time + 2h 20m 56s or simply + 2h 21m) or as the clock time in Israel.

Roff

It was a Unix version of the runoff text-formatting program from Multics, which was a descendant of RUNOFF for CTSS (the first computerized text-formatting application).

Universal Time

The International Astronomical Union also is involved in setting standards, but the final arbiter of broadcast standards is the International Telecommunication Union or ITU.

In 1935, the term Universal Time was recommended by the International Astronomical Union as a more precise term than Greenwich Mean Time, because GMT could refer to either an astronomical day starting at noon or a civil day starting at midnight.


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