time sharing
Alternating resource use
Time sharing refers to the division of something among multiple users who take turns.
In computing, it describes systems where a processor rapidly switches between users or tasks, giving each a slice of time—the foundation of modern multitasking.
In real estate, time sharing (or timeshare) is a vacation property arrangement where multiple owners each get exclusive use for designated periods: They bought a time share in Cancun.
- mainframeLarge centralized computer system
- multitaskingDoing several things concurrently
- terminalAt the endpoint
- computingProcessing data mathematically
- vacation ownershipPartial property for holidays
vacation · rental · condo · resort · CPU · scheduling · processor · users · login · remote · access · user login · property · ownership · interval · week · exchange · Unix
- multitaskingjuggling, divided attention, context switching, balancing, parallel processing
- sharinggiving, lending, borrowing, donating, swapping
- shared resourcescommons, co-op, cooperative, mutual aid, community garden
- CPU Schedulingscheduler, round robin, round-robin, FIFO, quantum
- Mainframesmainframe, COBOL, batch processing, Big Blue, IBM
- household dynamicschores, rules, roles, siblings, parents
time sharingexclusive access
Permission limited to few
dedicated server · single-tasking · batch processing · bare metal · personal computing
time sharingsole ownership
Undivided possession by one
full ownership · freehold · individual ownership · private ownership · permanent residence
time, sharing, times, timed, timing, timely, untimely, timer, timers