Quotes About Time-sharing

I started in time-sharing and networking with packet switching, which was the precursor to what became the Internet. Time-shared use on packet-switch networks, when you think about it, is the cloud.

Tracy's dad was setting in motion the forces that would give rise to essentially all of modern computing: time-sharing, personal computing, the mouse, graphical user interfaces, the explosion of creativity at Xerox PARC, the Internet—all of it.

Before 1965 was out, GE was offering just such a commercial time-sharing service based on the Dartmouth College system, which included the new interactive programming language BASIC.

just an ASR-33 Teletype terminal that could dial in to a nearby GE Mark II time-sharing system, which offered little more than GE's version of BASIC.

graphics-rich personal workstations and the notion of human-computer symbiosis; time-sharing and the notion of computer-aided collaborative work; networks and the notion of an on-line community; on-line libraries and the notion of instant, universal access to knowledge; and computer languages and the notion of a new, digital medium of expression.

Thomas Kurtz and John Kemeny were starting to plan a campus-wide time-sharing system for much the same reason; the effort would eventually lead them to create an interactive programming language that they would call BASIC.

the inventor of general-purpose computer "time-sharing," a technique that let individual users interact with batch-processing behemoths in a way that looked very much like present-day personal computing.