Some criteria for time-sharing system performance

  • Authors:
  • Saul Stimler

  • Affiliations:
  • Radio Corp. of America, Cherry Hill, NJ

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1969

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Abstract

Time-sharing systems, as defined in this article, are those multiaccess systems which permit a terminal user to utilize essentially the full resources of the system while sharing its time with other terminal users. It is each terminal user's ability to utilize the full resources of the system that makes quantitative evaluation of time-sharing systems particularly difficult. Six criteria are described which have been successfully used to perform first-level quantitative time-sharing system performance evaluation.