Virtual memory, processes, and sharing in MULTICS

The work

AuthorsRobert C. Daley; Jack B. Dennis
Typearticle
Year1968
Citekeydaley1968virtual

Where it appeared

Published inCommunications of the ACM
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Volume11
Issue5
Pages306--312

Identifiers

DOI10.1145/363095.363139

Abstract

Some basic concepts involved in the design of the MULTICS operating system are introduced. MULTICS concepts of processes, address space, and virtual memory are defined and the use of paging and segmentation is explained. The means by which users may share procedures and data is discussed and the mechanism by which symbolic references are dynamically transformed into virtual machine addresses is described in detail.

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@article{daley1968virtual,
  title        = {Virtual memory, processes, and sharing in MULTICS},
  author       = {Robert C. Daley and Jack B. Dennis},
  year         = {1968},
  journal      = {Communications of the ACM},
  volume       = {11},
  number       = {5},
  pages        = {306--312},
  publisher    = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  doi          = {10.1145/363095.363139},
}

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