TIME-SHARING VERSUS BATCH PROCESSING: THE EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE.
Abstract
The continuing controversy over the relative merits of time-sharing versus batch processing has taken a new and significant turn from predisciplinary speculation to applied scientific experimentation. Within the last two years, five experimental studies have appeared in the literature, each comparing some form of online and offline data processing with respect to man-machine measures of system performance. These five pioneering studies comprise the first substantive data base for comparing and evaluating experimental methodology and findings bearing on the growing and changing competition between time-sharing and batch processing systems. This paper provides a critical review of these five experiments, summarized findings, problems and pitfalls, and offers recommendations for future experimental work. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 10, 1967
- Accession Number
- AD0661665
Entities
People
- H. Sackman
Organizations
- System Development Corporation