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... time - sharing is a technique by which the attention of the machine alternates among the various tasks being per- formed in such a way that the machine appears to be performing the tasks at the same time . In particular , the time ...
... time - sharing is a technique by which the attention of the machine alternates among the various tasks being per- formed in such a way that the machine appears to be performing the tasks at the same time . In particular , the time ...
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... time - sharing . On large machines it is not uncommon to find 50 or more activities sharing the time of a single CPU . Since the length of a time slice is in the range of 10 milliseconds to 100 milliseconds , the appearance of all these ...
... time - sharing . On large machines it is not uncommon to find 50 or more activities sharing the time of a single CPU . Since the length of a time slice is in the range of 10 milliseconds to 100 milliseconds , the appearance of all these ...
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... time - sharing can be applied within batch processing systems as well as within interactive ones . The technique of time - sharing often improves the total throughput of a batch processing system since the operating system can remove ...
... time - sharing can be applied within batch processing systems as well as within interactive ones . The technique of time - sharing often improves the total throughput of a batch processing system since the operating system can remove ...
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