78-Rocquencourt, Franc e . . .Mesnageons le temps ; encore nous en reste-il beaucoup d ' oisif et mal employe . " ESOPE , as quoted by MONTAIGNE Essais, livre troisieme, XIII .Summary : This paper describes the main design principles of the multiaccess system ESOPE . Emphasis i s placed on basic ideas underlying the design rather than on implementation details . The main feature s of the system include the ability given to any user to schedule his own parallel processes,using syste m primitive operations, and the allocation/scheduling policy, which dynamically takes into account recen t information about user behaviour .

The main design principles of the multiaccess system ESOPE ore described. Emphasis is placed on basic ideas underlying the design rather than on implementation details.The main features of the system include the ability given to any user to schedule his own parallel processes using system primitive operotions, the file-memory relationship, and the allocation-scheduling policy, which dynamically takes into account recent information about user behavior.