22 Jun
2016
22 Jun
'16
4:31 p.m.
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
You don't understand. Big iron did multitasking
and multiprogramming,
but the I/O media was cards, tape and printed output. Going "online"
was expensive and slow in terms of equipment.
There were many people who saw timesharing as a huge waste of
resources, even though the better timesharing systems were actually
quite efficient. (And the timesharing systems often simultaneously ran
batch jobs.)