Associations to the word «Scheduler»

Wiktionary

SCHEDULER, noun. A person or device that determines a schedule, that determines the order that tasks are to be done.
SCHEDULER, noun. (computer science) An operating system component responsible for allocating several resources, most commonly the use of processors by different concurrent processes or threads. [from 20th c.]

Dictionary definition

SCHEDULER, noun. Computer hardware that arranges jobs to be done by the computer in an appropriate order.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope