Scheduling in a general purpose operating system

Abstract

In recent years there has been a great deal written and published about scheduling and storage management in time sharing systems. During the same period there has been a significant trend toward the development of more general purpose operating systems on large computers. Such systems support a high volume batch processing operation and at the same time provide modes of computation usually associated with time sharing systems. They are multiprogramming and multiprocessor systems that execute jobs that enter the job stream from local and remote card readers, and from local and remote on-line consoles. Some jobs are interactive during execution and some are not. Many jobs use interactive file creation and editing and debugging processors even though they are basically batch jobs.