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This reminds me of my dad talking about how amazing it was when time-sharing became a thing at UWaterloo. He'd talk about how batch-processing was such a pain w
by Waterluvian 3y ago
This reminds me of my dad talking about how amazing it was when time-sharing became a thing at UWaterloo. He'd talk about how batch-processing was such a pain when you'd discover some tiny error and have to get back in line, and how with time-sharing you could show up at 3am and have an entire PDP to yourself.
- dekhn 3y agoMy PhD advisor stayed up late at night (in the '60s) to get exclusive access to an IBM mainframe that was normally used at UC for payroll. When I joined the lab the convention was to go find a machine that was only lightly loaded (manually; there was no batch queue, just telnet to a cluster of machines) and start your multi-month simulation and hope nobody else popped onto the machine to steal half your processor.
- bee_rider 3y agoBatch processing and time sharing, there are pros and cons. Time aloning, though, there are no cons.