LC control no. | sh 85135434 |
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LC classification | QA76.53 |
Topical heading | Time-sharing computer systems |
Variant(s) | Computer timesharing Timesharing (Computers) |
See also | Computer systems Data processing service centers Computer scheduling Online data processing |
Found in | UMI business vocab. Wikipedia, via WWW, Feb. 22, 2006 (time-sharing refers to sharing a computing resource among many users by multitasking; mainframes and minicomputers were extremely expensive, it was rarely possible to allow a single user exclusive access to the machine for interactive use) |