[ale] Linux job

[Christopher Fowler]

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

No.  time-sharing is a concept with main frames where multiple companies
could share one system to keep the costs down.  Years back when I
programmed Cobol on a main frame the same system was being shared with
the Chicago Lottery.  So we would get so much time and they would get so
much time.  You usually paid by the time so if you had a mistake in a
program you had to run it again and pay again for the time used.

On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 13:20 -0500, Rev. Johnny Healey wrote:
> I thought UNIX and Windows were considered time-sharing.  They allow
> multiple users/services to use the system at the same time, but don't
> offer the same performance guarantees that a RTOS provides.
> 
> On 3/29/06, Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
>         On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 08:35 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
>         > Classified by who?  Microsoft I'm sure.  Does anyone else
>         really 
>         > consider these to be real time implementations?
>         
>         Years ago UNIX was considered a real-time system vs what the
>         main frame
>         is.  The MF is not real-time.  More like job oriented.
>         
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