time-sharing system

C11152

concept

A time-sharing system is an operating system that allows multiple users or processes to share computing resources concurrently by rapidly switching the CPU among them, giving the illusion of simultaneous execution.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
time-sharing operating system	16
time-sharing system canonical	3
Job Entry Subsystem	2
time-sharing computing environment	1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction

generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"

Input

Class: time-sharing system

Generated description

A time-sharing system is an operating system that allows multiple users or processes to share computing resources concurrently by rapidly switching the CPU among them, giving the illusion of simultaneous execution.

Instances (22)

Instance	Via concept surface
Multics	time-sharing operating system
JES2	Job Entry Subsystem
JES3	Job Entry Subsystem
TOPS-10	time-sharing operating system
TOPS-20	time-sharing operating system
MIT AI Lab software environment	time-sharing computing environment
Unix	—
TENEX operating system surface form: TENEX	time-sharing operating system
ITS (Incompatible Timesharing System)	time-sharing operating system
Compatible Time-Sharing System	time-sharing operating system
CTSS	time-sharing operating system
CTSS time-sharing system surface form: CTSS	time-sharing operating system
RSTS/E	time-sharing operating system
Multiplexed Information and Computing Service	time-sharing operating system
DECsys	—
CP/CMS	time-sharing operating system
TSO/E	—
IAS	time-sharing operating system
TOPS family	time-sharing operating system
TSS-8	time-sharing operating system
WAITS	time-sharing operating system
Dartmouth Time-Sharing System	time-sharing operating system