THOR: a display based time sharing system

Authors:
John McCarthy;Dow Brian;Gary Feldman;John Allen
Affiliations:
Stanford University, Stanford, California;Stanford University, Stanford, California;Stanford University, Stanford, California;Stanford University, Stanford, California
Venue:
AFIPS '67 (Spring) Proceedings of the April 18-20, 1967, spring joint computer conference
Year:
1967

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Abstract

THOR is a time sharing system for the PDP-1 computer with the capacity to run twenty user programs. The system has twenty-eight user consoles, twelve of which are combination keyboard and cathode ray tube display consoles. THOR is designed to capitalize on the display's ability to present large quantities of information quickly and to mitigate the fact that hard copy is not available at display consoles. The other sixteen consoles are Model 33 teletypes with the attendant slow presentation of information and the availability of hard copy. Because there are more consoles than user programs available, a user program may use more than one console.