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Früher Enthusiasmus (1952 - 1969)
Time-Sharing: ... His frustrations with the status quo centered
primarily around the lack of interactive debugging that was
available on the batch processing computers. Saltzer explained that
in order to do an AI application you need to be able to debug
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programs. And this business of batch processing was death on AI
programming. Because you need to be able to have a dozen
interactions an hour rather than one a day. So they needed an
interactive system in order to do AI research.“ In a memo to his
superior, Philip Morse, dated January 1, 1959, McCarthy explained
the difficulties he was experiencing trying to program using the
traditional batch processed computers. He suggested that the only
way that real-time interactive debugging would be achievable at a
bearable cost was by timesharing the machine. ...
aus: http://mit.edu/6.933/www/Fall2001/AILab.pdf