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", the linux/unix equivalent would be background jobs, jobs that don't interact with anything until they're done. In the sense that a makefile is similar (very loosely) to an IBM JCL card, then yes, compiling anything is "batch" This doesn't mean cron is batch though. cron is scheduling, not batching