Sequencing Aspects of Multiprogramming

Abstract

The large newer computers available today and the computers of the future will all have features of simultaneous operation. Because of this simultaneity, the question of planning a program and the planning of groups of independent programs using the simultaneous operation capabilities of the computer becomes important. All these questions have been grouped under the heading of multiprogramming. In this paper we will discuss the sequencing or scheduling aspects of multiprogramming. Roughly speaking, the sequencing aspects revolve around questions of parts of a computer being idle because the data to be processed in one computer part is still being processed elsewhere in the computer; and if we have a group of independent programs, how can we stagger the parts of the programs through the computer such that some defined objective of all the programs