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Computing resource shared by concurrent users
In computing, time-sharing is the concurrent sharing of a computing resource among many tasks or users by giving each task or user a small slice of processing time. This quick switch between tasks or users gives the illusion of simultaneous execution. It enables multi-tasking by a single user or enables multiple-user sessions. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Time-sharingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Improving concurrency and memory usage in distributed operating systems for lightweight manycores via cooperative time-sharing lightweight tasksInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Operating system principlesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: UNIX Time-Sharing System: The MERT Operating SystemCited 16 times
- Go sideways: Timeline of operating systemsA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Conversational Monitor SystemA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
UNIX Time-Sharing System: The MERT Operating System
Resource management for a medium scale time-sharing operating system
GEORGE 3—A general purpose time sharing and operating system
UNIX Time-Sharing System: The UNIX Operating System as a Base for Applications
XINIX time-sharing operating system
UNIX Time-Sharing System: RBCS/RCMAS-Converting to the MERT Operating System
Numerical integration in ordinary differential equations operating under ILLIAC II time-sharing system
Implementing Real-Time Scheduling in a Time-Sharing Operating System
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
Operating system principlesPer Brinch Hansen · 1973- 📕TFILEG. Lawrence Lane · 1978
A simulation study of the CP/67 time-sharing systemBrian John Stanger · 1970- 📕SAS companion for OS operating systems and TSOSAS Institute · 1984
- 📕UNIX programmer's manualKen Thompson · 1974
- 📕RSTS/E system manager's guide. · 1975
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