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Time-sharing system evolution

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To establish the context of the present work, it is informative to trace the development of time-sharing at MIT. Shortly after the first paper on time-shared computers by C. Strachey at the June 1959 UNESCO Information Processing conference, H.M. Teager and J. McCarthy delivered an unpublished paper
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Without time-sharing, an individual user would enter bursts of information followed by long pauses; but with a group of users working at the same time, the pauses of one user would be filled by the activity of the others. Similarly, small slices of time spent waiting for disk, tape, or network input
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See details and additional systems in the table below. Relationships shown here are for the purpose of grouping entries and do not reflect all influences. The Cambridge Multiple-Access System was the first time-sharing system developed outside the United States.
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Time-sharing was first proposed in the mid- to late-1950s and first implemented in the early 1960s. The concept was born out of the realization that a single expensive computer could be efficiently utilized by enabling
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has shifted from its original usage. From 1949 to 1960, time-sharing was used to refer to multiprogramming; it evolved to mean multi-user interactive computing.
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Influences:     ⇶ derivation     ⇉ strong influence     → some influence/precedence
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Mathematically oriented language and interactive environment, noted for incredible terseness and powerful set processing operators
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Almost immediately after the 1965 meeting, Donald Davies conceived of the details of a store-and-forward packet switching system
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Lightweight, interactive computing language for non-specialists; did not distinguish operating system from language
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could be granted to other users. Given an optimal group size, the overall process could be very efficient.
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after seminar he gave on time-sharing in the Autumn of 1965, attended by several people working on
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The things that I liked enough to actually take were the hierarchical file system and the shell
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Seminal system for experimental programming, responsible for many modern user interface concepts
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Ultimately dominated operating system thought, in both proprietary and open-source descendants
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I did not envisage the sort of console system which is now so confusingly called time-sharing.
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a good case can be made that UNIX is in essence a modern implementation of MIT's CTSS system
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to be a source of confusion and not what he meant when he wrote his original paper in 1959.
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Important time-sharing systems, 1960–1990 (and successors); listed alphabetically
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Early time-sharing editor environment, often used as an alternative to TSO
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and other tools; became the first commercial time-sharing system through
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Influential system widely used at research and government sites
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Coders at work : reflections on the craft of programming
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The Cambridge multiple-access system: user's reference manual
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IBM's original "official" time-sharing system; not a success
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and successors, allowed remote and higher-speed use over the
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wrote he considered the change in the meaning of the term
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High-performance mainframe transaction platform used in
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operating systems, showing their subsequent evolution.
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original research
improve it
verifying
inline citations
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Time-sharing
multiprogramming
interactive access
Christopher Strachey
computer terminal
teleprinters
Teletype Model 33
Friden Flexowriter
CRT
DEC
VT05
Datapoint 2200
Lear Siegler
ADM-3A
current loop
serial cables
telegraph circuits
PTTs
leased lines
T1
Modems
Bell 103
analogue voice telephone network
time-sharing

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