The origin of the time-sharing problem was that computers were expensive and fast, so they could be used simultaneously by multiple people whose programs would compete for shared resources like printers, requiring synchronization to prevent garbled output.
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“computers were worked faster than humans and so and computers were very expensive in those days. So uh they wanted they could use a computer to simultaneously to be used simultaneously by multiple people.”
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Turing Award Winner: Thinking Clearly, Paxos vs Raft, Working With Dijkstra | Leslie Lamport— Ryan PetermanCreated: 8/12/2026, 6:17:50 PM
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