Intro to Multiprogramming
January 8th 2010 10:15 am
Back in 1964, Boston’s public TV station, WGBH, did a show on interactive computing at MIT. They interviewed Fernando Corbató, MIT’s timesharing pioneer, who demonstrated the old CTSS system. The Computer History Museum got permission from MIT and WGBH to post the episode on YouTube:
During the episode, Corby explains how timesharing (multiprogramming) works, in terms of taking turns between programs using round-robin scheduling.
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