There was an old story about a multiuser OS where the user would hold down a key to get more cpu slice during compiles… but my Google fu is failing to find it.

There was an old story about a multiuser OS where the user would hold down a key to get more cpu slice during compiles… but my Google fu is failing to find it. The idea was that the OS gave more cycles to interactive sessions … something like that. It may be apocryphal.