Time sharing

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Time sharing means:

  • in the hotel and tourism sector, a proportionate use of a residential unit in a holiday complex, see timeshare
  • Time sharing (computer science) , a procedure to allow several users to work on one computer at the same time


See also:

  • Time-Sharing Option (TSO), an interactive command line interpreter for IBM mainframe operating systems z / OS, in which the user is assigned the CPU for a certain period of time while the other users are waiting
  • Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS), one of the first multi-user systems in the 1960s and 1970s
  • Incompatible Timesharing System (ITS; pun on CTSS), a free operating system written at MIT for the computers of the PDP-10 series from DEC