Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 28 May 2006 14:15, Per Jessen wrote:
As an aside - batch still exists - batch is everything that is not realtime or interactive/on-line. An interactive/on-line transaction is something with a less than 3sec response time. Compiling the Linux kernel is batch.
That's a redefinition of the term, it wasn't what "batch" was meant to mean. I know that modern mainframe programmers refer to "batch jobs" meaning as opposed to "online programs",
Also not-so-modern mainframe people will talk about batchjobs - that's the way it's always been, right back to the punchcard days. Maybe it's a redefinition, I don't know. Back in my own IBM system programming days (late 1980s), we'd run up towards 10'000 batchjobs a night.
In the sense that a makefile is similar (very loosely) to an IBM JCL card, then yes, compiling anything is "batch".
Yep. /Per Jessen, Zürich