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Operating Systems: Concurrent and Distributed Software Design
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Operating Systems: Concurrent and Distributed Software Design

by Jean Bacon, Tim Harris
March 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
912 pages
27h 17m
English
Pearson Business
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A.2. Operating systems and distributed operating systems

The earliest computer systems had no operating systems. Programmers would book time on the computer or queue to use it. They would then read in their decks of cards or paper tapes and perhaps single-shot through the part of the program being debugged while watching the effect on the console display. The potential of computers for the business world was soon realized and the need for streamlining program execution became apparent.

One-at-a-time batch

During the 1960s computers were expensive and were located in air-conditioned machine rooms. The first operating systems were designed to run one program at once and the human was removed from the input process. The term SPOOL (simultaneous ...

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