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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 .