[6] In 1943, Corbató enrolled at UCLA, but due to World War II he was recruited by the Navy during his first year.

During the war, Corbató "debug[ged] an incredible array of equipment", inspiring his future career.

[5] Corbató left the Navy in 1946, enrolled at the California Institute of Technology, and received a bachelor's degree in physics in 1950.

[8] The experience with developing CTSS led to a second project, Multics, which was adopted by General Electric for its high-end computer systems (later acquired by Honeywell).

In 2012, he was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for his pioneering work on timesharing and the Multics operating system".