Michigan Terminal System - Definition

MTS is an operating system for IBM System/360 and its successors that was developed jointly by the following institutions:

• University of Michigan
• Wayne State University
• Simon Fraser University
• University of Alberta
• University of British Columbia
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Durham University
• University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Popular programs developed for MTS include MAD, the FORMAT text formatting system and the CONFER conferencing system from Robert Parnes.

MTS doesn't implement directories, but there is a de facto two-tier grouping of files owing to the inclusion in a file's name of its owner's four-character MTS callsign.

See also

• IBM Time Sharing Option (TSO)
• Multics
• MUSIC/SP
• time-sharing