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5 unusual facts about batch processing


COBOL ReSource

Wang was among the first, if not the first, to integrate COBOL into environments built from the ground up to be interactive as well as batch.

COMMAND.COM

The second is the batch mode, which executes a predefined sequence of commands stored as a text file with the extension .BAT.

Job control

Batch processing was common, and interactive computer systems rare and expensive.

Production support

These Production Support steps are in context of the Batch processing.

Sintran III

Now that Sintran has mostly disappeared as an operating system there are very few references to it, however a job control or batch language was available called JEC, believed to be known as Job Execution Controller, this could be used to set up batch jobs to compile COBOL programs etc.


GNU TeXmacs

It is possible to use TeXmacs as a batch processor (which is LaTeX's usual operation mode), using X virtual framebuffer to avoid opening unwanted windows while processing.

History of chemical engineering

Before the Industrial Revolution (18th century), industrial chemicals and other consumer products such as soap were mainly produced through batch processing.


see also

ACDSee

ACDSee's main features are speed, lossless RAW/image editing, image batch processing, metadata (Exif/IPTC), with support to edit/embed metadata in image files, rating, keywords, and categories, and geotagging/GPS support.