Continuous Sharing of a Record-Oriented Output Device within a Distributed Function Laboratory Computer Network
F. W. Stubblefield · IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science · 1976
An attempt to partition along functional lines a computer system for control of and data collection from a set of laboratory experiments leads to the notion of sharing of peripheral devices. Peripheral devices can be shared in two fundamentally different ways, reserved for discrete periods of time or continuously shared. The design and implementation of a subsystem to handle the continuous sharing of a record-oriented device is discussed.