External Characteristics of Computer Operations: Toward Large Conversational Time-Sharing Systems

Author

Wiehle, Hans Rüdiger

Author_Institution

University of the Armed Forces Munich , Ottobrunn

Volume

32

Issue

3

fYear

2010

Firstpage

4

Lastpage

19

Abstract

In an historical overview of computer operations in scientific-technical environments from the second half of the 1950s to the mid-1960s, this article discusses the ways German universities and similar institutions initially used small computers. It reports on the emergence of high-level programming languages, the appearance and predominance of large batch-processing systems, and the arising efforts to reestablish a conversational mode of operations.

Keywords

batch processing (computers); educational institutions; scientific information systems; time-sharing systems; German universities; batch processing systems; computer operations; high level programming languages; large conversational time sharing systems; scientific technical environments; Computer languages; Educational institutions; Engineering management; History; Logic programming; Military computing; Operating systems; Software engineering; System testing; Time sharing computer systems; computer industry; history of computing; operating systems; programming languages; software engineering; software management; user-computer interaction;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1058-6180

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MAHC.2009.56

Filename

5255179