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By time-sharing, does he mean sharing computing time on a cluster? I work on my university's cluster and on bad days, my jobs are queued for 4 hours and then ru
by a_bonobo 13y ago
By time-sharing, does he mean sharing computing time on a cluster? I work on my university's cluster and on bad days, my jobs are queued for 4 hours and then run for 20 minutes...
- taspeotis 13y agoI didn't know time sharing was still a thing.
- mattstreet 13y agoYeah for clusters/super computers...I mean you'd think more than one person wants to use them right?
- pseut 13y agoDude, you didn't even look at the pdf did you. That was the entry for 13 Mar 1978
- a_bonobo 13y agoI'm pretty sure clusters changed in their architecture and their processing power, but you still have to stand in line
- timtadh 13y agoIn 1978 Time Sharing Machines refers to single machines with multi-tasking. ex. the terminal you are using right now. So you don't have to "wait in line" you have to share resources. Just like your web-browser shares resources with your editor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing esr also has a good article: http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/timesharing.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/timesharing.html