I want to know how the first programs to be able to execute more than one programs within a common time span were like . I went through the history of the topic and it seemed like Strachey was the first one to work on multi-programming . Hence , i thought of reading his paper "Time sharing in large and fast computers"
Where can I find this paper ?
Is it so that in multi- programming , two addresses are stored in a memory location and the program counter is sequentially switched between the values in the two locations and after the execution of instructions the value in the corresponding register is incremented ? So basically for a language to support multi-programming the keyword or function ,it should use to create concurrent programs or to make two programs run in parallel , should translate to a machine code having conditional jump instructions .
For example , a version of AlGol 60 , used "cobegin" and "coend" keywords to mean the parallel execution of two streams of instructions as follow :
Cobegin :
process 1 Begin :..... End
process 2 begin .......End
Coend
So , is it so that cobegin and coend translate to a machine code which stores the addresses of the machine codes obtained from translation of process1 and process 2 to two different registers , and use jump instruction to sequentially switch between the present values in the registers which are incremented as the programs get executed .
P.S : It would also be of great help , if someone can point towards a link where the code for the OS used by Burrough's written in ALGOL60 is available provided such a link exists .