Batch processing - Revision history

Vaxorcist: Changed wording

2025-11-23T11:23:22Z

Changed wording

2025-11-21T15:22:01Z

"Mixed interactive/batch processing" added

2025-07-21T10:14:20Z

Get rid of redirect loop

2021-03-10T15:25:36Z

bah, typo

2021-03-10T15:25:06Z

Redir - long form

New page

#Redirect [[Batch]

@@ Line 8: / Line 8: @@
 ** through decks of [[punched card]]s at the [[card reader]].
-This allowed the user terminal to be kept free for interactive work and unused computer capacity to be used for batch jobs at a lower priority.
+This allowed the user terminal to be kept free for interactive work and otherwise unused computer capacity to be used for batch jobs at a lower priority.
 Although in the very earliest days there were no operating systems, and submitted programs ran on the [[hardware|'bare metal']], [[subroutine package|subroutine libraries]] quickly appeared to do such things as perform [[input/output|I/O]] on behalf of the user; these evolved into [[batch operating system]]s, specialized in performing batch processing.

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 '''Batch processing''' is the name for the usual manner in which early [[computer]]s (but not the very earliest) were used (although it continued to exist for a long period afterwards). [[Time-sharing]] had not yet been invented, so [[user]]s generally did not interact directly with 'their' computer in [[real-time]]; instead, they gathered up their [[program]] and its [[input]] data (together usually referred to as a [[job]]), and handed the whole thing as a unit over to the [[computer operator]], whose task it was to care for the machine, and 'run' all the jobs submitted to it by users. The submitted jobs formed a queue, and the operator would run them in order, one after the other - hence the name for this manner of using computers.
-Although in the very earliest days there were no [[operating system]]s, and submitted programs ran on the [[hardware|'bare metal']], [[subroutine package|subroutine libraries]] quickly appeared to do such things as perform [[input/output|I/O]] on behalf of the user; these evolved into [[batch operating system]]s, specialized in performing batch processing.
+Some [[operating system]]s offered a mixed environment of:
 [[Category: OS Basics]]
 [[Category: Computer Basics]]

← Older revision		Revision as of 10:14, 21 July 2025
Line 1:		Line 1:
−	~~#Redirect~~ [[~~Batch~~]]	+	'''Batch processing''' is the name for the usual manner in which early [[computer]]s (but not the very earliest) were used (although it continued to exist for a long period afterwards). [[Time-sharing]] had not yet been invented, so [[user]]s generally did not interact directly with 'their' computer in [[real-time]]; instead, they gathered up their [[program]] and its [[input]] data (together usually referred to as a [[job]]), and handed the whole thing as a unit over to the [[computer operator]], whose task it was to care for the machine, and 'run' all the jobs submitted to it by users. The submitted jobs formed a queue, and the operator would run them in order, one after the other - hence the name for this manner of using computers.
		+
		+	Although in the very earliest days there were no [[operating system]]s, and submitted programs ran on the [[hardware\|'bare metal']], [[subroutine package\|subroutine libraries]] quickly appeared to do such things as perform [[input/output\|I/O]] on behalf of the user; these evolved into [[batch operating system]]s, specialized in performing batch processing.
		+
		+	[[Category: OS Basics]]
		+	[[Category: Computer Basics]]