On 12/9/2013 5:43 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
I -- and John I am sure -- remember when it came along. A radical concept. A "time sharing option" for OS/360. Ooh. Not sure about this. And it gave new meaning to the word slow.
I'm not so sure about the "radical", as time-sharing was available earlier on. I agree with "slow" - I was working at a service bureau at the time, and after evaluating our options, settled on offering a modified version of RAND Wylbur. The early versions lacked an execution facility, requiring users to do most thing by batch, but it helped get more work out of the machine.
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