Keeping a debugging journal

Re:Keeping a debugging journal by a_bonobo on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @09:20PM (#6765950)

By time-sharing, does he mean sharing computing time on a cluster? I work on my university's cluster and on bad days, my jobs are queued for 4 hours and then run for 20 minutes...

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Re:Keeping a debugging journal by pseut on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @10:55PM (#6766194)

Dude, you didn't even look at the pdf did you. That was the entry for 13 Mar 1978

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Re:Keeping a debugging journal by a_bonobo on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @11:02PM (#6766217)

I'm pretty sure clusters changed in their architecture and their processing power, but you still have to stand in line

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Re:Keeping a debugging journal by timtadh on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @12:06AM (#6766412)

In 1978 Time Sharing Machines refers to single machines with multi-tasking. ex. the terminal you are using right now. So you don't have to "wait in line" you have to share resources. Just like your web-browser shares resources with your editor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing

esr also has a good article: http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/timesharing.html

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Re:Keeping a debugging journal by taspeotis on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @09:29PM (#6765973)

I didn't know time sharing was still a thing.

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Re:Keeping a debugging journal by mattstreet on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @10:04PM (#6766051)

Yeah for clusters/super computers...I mean you'd think more than one person wants to use them right?

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