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The UNIX Time-Sharing Operating System
The UNIX Time-Sharing Operating System Dennis M. Ritchie and Ken Thompson, Bell Labs, Communications of the ACM, July 1974, Volume 17, Number 7, pp. 365-375. This paper describes Version 3 of UNIX. It was Version 6 that became the basis of the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) version of UNIX. The only other operating system in CS history […]
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 […]
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, […]
US Patent 9,830,329 Issued
US Patent 9,830,329 issued November 28, 2017. It is about a technique for utilizing a pre-existing tunneling mechanism to invoke remote functionality. The original inspiration for this was the need to communicate from a component on a client system to utilize functionality available on the server. The first case for this was when I wanted […]
Windows and “reserved names”
I’ve fallen into the habit of answering some questions on Quora and those which involve answering questions about Windows file systems seem to garner the most interest and the most disagreement. Yesterday I answered a question entitled Why can’t I save a folder name “con” in Windows? I decided to respond to this because the other […]
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