The Evolution Of CPU Processing Power Part 3: The Origin Of Modern Operating Systems

The Origin Of Modern Operating Systems During the 1960s into the 1970s, the multitasking paradigm was gaining traction in the mainframe world. Initially, the concept was implemented in a cruder form known as multiprogramming. Multiprogramming was accomplished by processing programs in batches, jumping between them during regions of code that wait for hardware input. This would eventual evolving into time-sharing. By the late 1960s, true multitasking started to emerge in operating systems such as DEC’s PDP