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However, an output file tape may not be used by more than one job nor may it be used as an immediate input file. All input is collected or batched and an input tape is prepared periodically with the off-line card-to-tape equipment. The arrangement of cards for each job is in the following order. An accounting card is the first card of every job and is used for recording the machine time to process the job. The system control card is the second card of a job and is inserted for the first job in a sequence of jobs for a given program.
A time-sharing debugg ing system for a small computer. Spring Joint Computer Conference 23, 51-57. 55. R. M. McKeag 1976a. Burroughs B5500 Master Control Program. In Studies in Operating Systems, R. M. McKeag and R. , Academic Press, New York, 1-66. 56. R. M. McKeag 1976b. THE multiprogramming system. In Studies in Operating Systems, R. M. McKeag and R. , Academic Press , New York, 145-184 . 57. F. B. MacKenzie 1965. Automated secondary storage management. Datamation 11,11 (November) , 24-28 . 58.
He mounted his own tapes and set up the card reader, card punch, and printer to carry out his computation. By the time he got his calculation going, he may have had only 5 minutes or less of actual computation completed-wasting two thirds of his time slot. Standard cardreader and printer "boards" helped this situation, but the wasted time was still exorbitant. Then came the idea of streamlining the operation. Other ideas arose among the other 701 users, and in late summer of 1955 a meeting was called in Santa Monica, California.