I don’t remember much about time sharing being a thing at that time - batch processing made sense in both kinds of applications.
I don’t remember much about time sharing being a thing at that time - batch processing made sense in both kinds of applications.
As for time-sharing,IBM explicitly ruled it out as a design objective for OS/360. Then MIT went shopping for a partner for Multics. IBM had nothing of interest for them, but GE agreed to design a virtual memory version of their 635, the 645. Suddenly, IBM realized that they were going to lose a market, so they rapidly added memory mapping to the 360/65, producing the Model 67. They also announced Time Sharing System/360, but the early versions were unusable (20 minutes to log in, for example), so a few folks at the University of Michigan whipped up an interim solution, the Michigan Terminal System, which worked fine, and was in service at various places from 1968 to the 1990s.
Although IBM produced various time-sharing systems, including Call/360, APL\360, the Time Sharing Option, and VM/CMS, they never really understood it, which is why a few underfunded folks at a university could produce something better than what they could produce with a professionally-managed team.
By contrast, DEC did get it in that era, which is why the PDP-10 did so well in university computer science departments.