Exploiting the time-sharing environment

Abstract

For the past two years, Raytheon Space and Information Division at Sudbury, Massachusetts has been exploiting the time-sharing environment for the benefit of its scientists and engineers. At first, a single terminal was rented and tied into a remotely located service offered by Bolt, Beranek, and Newman in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was felt that as usage increased, additional terminals would be added to make use of the central computer. We were wrong. Before we needed a second terminal, the users required a second type of service. As the work load increased, a second terminal was added, but by then users were asking that a third type service be added.