EMAS

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EMAS Acronym for Edinburgh multiaccess system. An operating system that was originally developed at the University of Edinburgh and is intended to support large numbers of interactive terminals. It was one of the earliest systems to be implemented almost entirely in a high-level language. A special implementation language, IMP, was devised for this purpose.

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EMAS

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EMAS Computing Edinburgh multiaccess system
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The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations FRAN ALEXANDER , PETER BLAIR , JOHN DAINTITH , ALICE GRANDISON , VALERIE ILLINGWORTH , ELIZABETH MARTIN , ANNE STIBBS , JUDY PEARSALL , and SARA TULLOCH

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