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Information Control and Throttling

A time-sharing system consists of isolated users interlaced in a computing system. Information is interspersed and methods of segregating data are implemented. In the same time interval, two or more purposes are achieved simultaneously within the same core. This is distinct from multiprogramming, which aims at the execution of ongoing processes in a synchronized fashion within a unitary CPU.

J.A.N. LEE: Claims to the Term “Time-Sharing”

J.C.R Licklider: “Man-Computer Symbiosis”

RM Dodds to RW Bemer March 28, 1967

“5. A system consisting of the following: one or more input-output devices such as described in paragraph #2, each conveying its information to a common location distant from one or all of the input-output devices; one or more devices which generate the electrical impulses that convey information and that control the various operations of the several devices; one or more scanning or gating devices to segregate the information originating from the several input-output devices …”

In the “Limits of Control,” Burroughs attributes the mechanism of hermetic system of positive-feedback in a priestly class of scribes designated in the management of the Mayan Calendar. The apprehension of the first letter of the name was a distributed method of control, that was predicated on mass illiteracy.