Hi everybody, I hope this finds you in the pink of health. I am Quasar, and I hail from Mumbai, India. I own a blog on the internet, parked at http://www.mainframes360.com. I am an application developer by profession.
I intend to write an article on TSO/E on my blog. I have been reading matter on time-sharing and its origins on the Internet. I learnt about the history of Time Sharing systems and how they evolved over a period of time. I have also read, Bob Bemer’s article "*How to Consider a Computer*", published in the Automatic Control Magazine, in March 1957, by . I would like you to throw some light on the technical underpinnings of how TSO really accomplishes the feat of time-sharing. I know that, there is a TSO address-space for every active user logged on to the system. It is my understanding that, time is sliced by the scheduler between all the TSO jobs, other user-jobs, STARTed tasks etc. But, it occurs to me, why should a time-slot be given to a TSO user, who hasn't pressed an AID key(like Enter)? Maybe, he's just staring at a dataset. Isn't this a waste of processor-time? Or am I missing out something. Thanks and look forward to receiving a reply from you soon, Quasar Chunawala Sent from Windows Mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
