On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Chuck Guzis <[email protected]> wrote: > You don't understand. Big iron did multitasking and multiprogramming, > but the I/O media was cards, tape and printed output. Going "online" > was expensive and slow in terms of equipment.
There were many people who saw timesharing as a huge waste of resources, even though the better timesharing systems were actually quite efficient. (And the timesharing systems often simultaneously ran batch jobs.)
