The film discusses the management of a time-sharing computer system used by multiple users in different locations, including a college student in Mexico City and a programmer in Santa Monica.

The computer has become a main stay of big ... Little solves problems in applied mechanics through a time-sharing system run by Cambridge’s Bolt Beranek & Newman. An other time-sharing firm ...

Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also include accounting for cost allocation of processor time, mass storage, printing, and other resources ...

Without an operating system, your computer cannot function ... including Batch Operating Systems, Time-sharing Operating Systems, Distributed Operating Systems, Network Operating Systems ...

With time sharing, the programs weren’t ... Davis wasn’t sold on the team’s pitch to give them a new computer so they could continue operating system research and development.

A team of brilliant Dartmouth undergraduate students wrote the DTSS time-sharing operating system. I was the director of the computer center.” Article continues after ...