What do you mean by time-sharing technology?

What is time-sharing technology?

The processor time is divided into a very short time slice and distributed to each online job in turn. If a job has not been completed before the time allocated to him is finished, the job is temporarily interrupted, waiting for the next round to continue the calculation. At this point the processor is ceded to another job.

Time-Sharing technology is the same as composite programming, the basic idea is to switch the processing of computers from one task to another. Time-Sharing technology also requires tailoring the operating system to suit the needs of the task at hand.

First time-sharing operating system, Multics (for multiplexing information and computing services, 60)

Developed by development teams, including General Electric, Bell Labs and MIT. Ken Thompson was one of the members involved in the development of the Multics project, and he later developed a UNIX system with Dennis Ritchie.