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Terminal Oriented Social Science Terminal Oriented Social Science (project)(TOSS) The Cambridge Project Project MAC was anARPA-funded political science computing project. They workedon topics like survey analysis and simulation, led by Ithielde Sola Pool, J.C.R. Licklider and Douwe B. Yntema. Yntemahad done a system on the MIT Lincoln Labs TX-2 called theLincoln Reckoner, and in the summer of 1969 led a CambridgeProject team in the construction of an experiment called TOSS.TOSS was like Logo, with matrix operators. A majorfeature was multiple levels of undo, back to the level ofthe login session. This feature was cheap on the LincolnReckoner, but absurdly expensive on Multics. |