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Time Sharing systems Term
The concept of time-sharing, which allowed multiple users to share a single computer simultaneously, became practical in the 1960s. Time-sharing refers to multiprogramming; it evolved to mean multi-user interactive computing. Without time-sharing, an individual user would enter bursts of information followed by long pauses, but with a group of users working simultaneously, the pauses of one user would be filled by the activity of the others. -
Integrated Circuits (ICs)
The circuit was developed in the 1950s by Geoffrey D. The first patent for the Integrated Circuit was granted to Robert Noyce in April of 1961. Engineers like Jack K at Texas Instruments and Robert Noyce at Fairchild Semiconductor independently invented the IC, which allowed multiple transistors and other electronic components to be miniaturized and integrated into a single silicon chip. -
Kenneth Inverson writes programming language.
A form of mathematical notation that he had developed in the late 1950s while an assistant professor at Harvard University. IBM hired Iverson, and it was there that APL evolved into a practical programming language. APL was widely used in scientific, financial, and especially actuarial applications. Powerful functions and operators in APL are expressed with special characters, leading the path to building programs for the computers they use. -
Victor 3900 Desktop calculator
Built by General Microelectronics, it provided memory for the calculator, which was the first to use MOS for both logic and memory. The calculator could perform multiple functions and had a small, integrated CRT display. However, the immature MOS manufacturing process made the parts unreliable, limiting sales. This introduces people to Seeing factors on display; it rounded off numbers automatically and had three storage registers (could do two things at once). -
CICS is Released
CICS (Customer Information Control System), an IBM transaction processing system, was launched. Prior to the introduction of CICS, numerous sectors relied on batch processing with punched cards for handling high-volume customer transactions. By enabling online transaction processing, CICS had the capacity to supplant this approach, significantly expediting the manner in which companies engaged with their customers.