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  2. Slow computer? Here are 6 genius tips to speed it up - AOL

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    Here are seven ways to tidy up your computer and get back up to speed. Skip to main content. Subscriptions; Animals. Business. Fitness. Food. Games. Health. Home & Garden. Medicare. News ...

  3. Time-sharing - Wikipedia

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    Although more than 1,000 of the 19,503 jobs the system completed on "a particularly busy day" required ten seconds or more of computer time, DTSS was able to handle the jobs because 78% of jobs needed one second or less of computer time. About 75% of 3,197 users used their terminal for 30 minutes or less, during which they used less than four ...

  4. Scheduling (computing) - Wikipedia

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    FreeBSD uses a multilevel feedback queue with priorities ranging from 0–255. 0–63 are reserved for interrupts, 64–127 for the top half of the kernel, 128–159 for real-time user threads, 160–223 for time-shared user threads, and 224–255 for idle user threads. Also, like Linux, it uses the active queue setup, but it also has an idle ...

  5. Time management - Wikipedia

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    Time management is the process of planning and exercising conscious control of time spent on specific activities—especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency and productivity. [ 1 ] Time management involves demands relating to work , social life , family , hobbies , personal interests and commitments.

  6. 10 Useful Ways To Make Use of Your ‘Commute’ Time ... - AOL

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    Go for a Walk. Walking has numerous benefits, so consider starting and/or ending the day with a 20- to 30-minute stroll. “First, it helps move your body and brain into motion,” said Katie Kent ...

  7. Batch processing - Wikipedia

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    Each user had sole control of the machine for a scheduled period of time. They would arrive at the computer with program and data, often on punched paper cards and magnetic or paper tape, and would load their program, run and debug it, and carry off their output when done. As computers became faster the setup and takedown time became a larger ...

  8. Computer multitasking - Wikipedia

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    Multitasking is a common feature of computer operating systems since at least the 1960s. It allows more efficient use of the computer hardware; when a program is waiting for some external event such as a user input or an input/output transfer with a

  9. Job control (computing) - Wikipedia

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    In computing, job control refers to the control of multiple tasks or jobs on a computer system, ensuring that they each have access to adequate resources to perform correctly, that competition for limited resources does not cause a deadlock where two or more jobs are unable to complete, resolving such situations where they do occur, and terminating jobs that, for any reason, are not performing ...