To our dismay, users who had been enduring several hour waits between jobs run under batch processing were suddenly restless when response times were more than a second. (Fernando J. Corbató)

To our dismay, users who had been enduring several hour waits between jobs run under batch processing were suddenly restless when response times were more than a second.

Fernando J. Corbató

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