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Multiprogramming and Time Sharing

Multiprogramming and Time Sharing

This lesson briefly discusses the history of multiprogramming and time sharing and the approaches taken to implement time sharing.

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History of multiprogramming and time sharing

After a time, because machines were expensive, people began to share machines more effectively. Thus the era of multiprogramming was born"Programming Semantics for Multiprogrammed Computations" by Jack B. Dennis, Earl C. Van Horn. Communications of the ACM, Volume 9, Number 3, March 1966. An early paper (but not the first) on ...

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