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MULTICS I/O

Feiertag, Richard J., and Elliott I. Organick. “The Multics input/output system.” In Proceedings of the third ACM symposium on Operating systems principles, pp. 35-41. ACM, 1971. In this paper we return to MULTICS but this time the focus is on the I/O system.  Much of the content is not directly related to the file system, but it certainly […]

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MULTICS

A General-Purpose File System For Secondary Storage R. C. Daley and P.G. Neumann Published in the Proceedings of the American Federation of Information Processing Societies 1965, Fall Joint Computer Conference, vol. 27, pp. 213-229. This is the seminal paper discussing how file systems were envisioned within the MULTICS operating system. While you can still run MULTICS, […]

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