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Following the success of the Compatible Time-Sharing System [1], and its brilliant exploitation in Project MAC at MIT...

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  • Following the success of the Compatible Time-Sharing System [1], and its brilliant exploitation in Project MAC at MIT, many institutions began making similar systems

  • We were extensive computer users; in the early 1960s, much of the computing was done by sending batches of jobs for execution on computers at other sites of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA): Aldermaston and Risley, using IBM 704, 709, 7090 and 7030 (Stretch) computers [6]

  • HUW was in constant use at Harwell: all day, every day, from 1968 until the early 1980s, when the IBM System/360 was replaced by a Cray computer

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Following the success of the Compatible Time-Sharing System [1], and its brilliant exploitation in Project MAC at MIT ( the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, CSAIL), many institutions began making similar systems. Among the British ones were a multi-access extension for the supervisor for the Titan computer at Cambridge [2], COTAN [3,4] at Culham on an English Electric KDF-9, KOS [5] at the University of Kent at Canterbury on an Elliott 4130, and HUW at Harwell on an IBM System/360 computer, the subject of this paper. Harwell Users’ Workshop - HUW - was set up to provide interactive facilities for computer users at A.E.R.E Harwell. HUW was designed in 1965, following the author’s sabbatical visit to Project MAC

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