The Full Form of GPSS is General Purpose Simulation System.
GPSS, General Purpose Simulation System, is a language to simulate discrete systems to see how they perform over time. Sample uses include modeling a checkout at a supermarket or how a manufacturing assembly line will work. The programmer defines how transactions are created (eg a shopper), what resources are available (eg how many checkouts and how long they take to process) and how transactions move through the system. When run, it simulates a clock and processes these transactions, giving output that shows the performance of the system, eg how long on average a shopper had to queue for and how busy the checkouts where during a simulated day.
GPSS was created by Geoffrey Gordon in around 1961 and was originally implemented on IBM systems. The version we have on MTS, GPSS/360, is available as *GPSS
. Later versions of GPSS such as GPSS/H did run on MTS and may be available in future distributions (see this message at the MTS Archive).
GPSS
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General Purpose Simulation System
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