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Time-Sharing: History of Computing

The document discusses time-sharing in computing, which is the sharing of computing resources like processors or servers among multiple users simultaneously through techniques like multiprogramming and multitasking. This emerged as the prominent model of computing in the 1970s and allowed many users to interact with a single computer concurrently, dramatically lowering costs and making computers accessible without individual ownership. The document outlines the history of time-sharing, from early batch processing to the rise and fall of the time-sharing business model and computer utilities, and discusses notable time-sharing systems and security considerations.

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Time-Sharing: History of Computing

The document discusses time-sharing in computing, which is the sharing of computing resources like processors or servers among multiple users simultaneously through techniques like multiprogramming and multitasking. This emerged as the prominent model of computing in the 1970s and allowed many users to interact with a single computer concurrently, dramatically lowering costs and making computers accessible without individual ownership. The document outlines the history of time-sharing, from early batch processing to the rise and fall of the time-sharing business model and computer utilities, and discusses notable time-sharing systems and security considerations.

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Time-sharing

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This article is about the computing term. For the type of property ownership, see Timeshare.

For time sharing of communications media, see Time-division multiple access.

History of computing

Hardware

 Hardware before 1960


 Hardware 1960s to present

Software

 Software
 Unix
 Free software and open-source software

Computer science

 Artificial intelligence
 Compiler construction
 Computer science
 Operating systems
 Programming languages
 Prominent pioneers
 Software engineering

Modern concepts

 General-purpose CPUs
 Graphical user interface
 Internet
 Laptops
 Personal computers
 Video games
 World Wide Web

By country
 Bulgaria
 Poland
 Romania
 Soviet Bloc
 Soviet Union
 Yugoslavia

Timeline of computing

 before 1950
 1950–1979
 1980–1989
 1990–1999
 2000–2009
 2010–2019
 more timelines ...

Glossary of computer science

  Category

 v
 t
 e

In computing, time-sharing is the sharing of a computing resource among many users at the same
time by means of multiprogramming and multi-tasking.[1]
Its emergence as the prominent model of computing in the 1970s represented a major technological
shift in the history of computing. By allowing many users to interact concurrently with a single
computer, time-sharing dramatically lowered the cost of providing computing capability, made it
possible for individuals and organizations to use a computer without owning one, [2] and promoted the
interactive use of computers and the development of new interactive applications.

Contents

 1History

o 1.1Batch processing

o 1.2Time-sharing

o 1.3Development

o 1.4Time-sharing business
 1.4.1Rise and fall

 1.4.1.1Rapidata as an example

 1.4.1.2UK

o 1.5The computer utility

o 1.6Security

 2Notable time-sharing systems

 3See also

 4References

 5Further reading

 6External links

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