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On building systems that will fail
Fernando J. Corbató
January 2007
ACM Turing award lectures
Publisher: ACM
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On computer system challenges
Fernando J. Corbató
January 2003
Journal of the ACM (JACM): Volume 50 Issue 1, January 2003
Publisher: ACM
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Time sharing
F. J. Corbató
January 2003
Encyclopedia of Computer Science
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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Time sharing is a technique of organizing a computer so that several users can interact with it simultaneously. The term also refers to multi-user systems in which arbitrary general-purpose computation is performed and users operate independently of one another, often at locations remote from the computer itself. Although time sharing ...
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An experimental time-sharing system
Fernando J. Corbató,
Marjorie Merwin-Daggett,
Robert C. Daley
November 2001
Classic operating systems: from batch processing to distributed systems
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.
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Introduction and Overview of the Multics System
Fernando J. Corbató,
V. A. Vyssotsky
April 1992
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing: Volume 14 Issue 2, April 1992
Publisher: IEEE Educational Activities Department
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An Experimental Time-Sharing System
Fernando J. Corbató,
Marjorie Merwin-Daggett,
Robert C. Daley
January 1992
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing: Volume 14 Issue 1, January 1992
Publisher: IEEE Educational Activities Department
Excerpts are presented from a 1962 paper by Fernando Corbato, M. Merwin-Daggett, and R.C. Daley. The selection from the paper, which reported work completed in late 1961, is reprinted from Proc. Spring Joint Computer Conf., vol.21, 1962. In this system, the time-sharing occurs among four users, three of whom are ...
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On building systems that will fail
Fernando J. Corbató
September 1991
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on LISP: Volume 34 Issue 9, Sept. 1991
Publisher: ACM
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RISKS-FORUM digest contributions
John McAfee,
Clifford Johnson,
Fernando J. Corbato,
R. Amizade,
David Sherman,
David B. Benson
May 1991
Computerization and controversy: value conflicts and social choices
Publisher: Academic Press Professional, Inc.
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Multics: the first seven years
November 1971
AFIPS '72 (Spring): Proceedings of the May 16-18, 1972, spring joint computer conference
Publisher: ACM
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In 1964, following implementation of the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) serious planning began on the development of a new computer system specifically organized as a prototype of a computer utility. The plans and aspirations for this system, called Multics (for Multiplexed Information and Computing Service), were described in a set ...
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F. J. Corbató,
V. A. Vyssotsky
November 1965
AFIPS '65 (Fall, part I): Proceedings of the November 30--December 1, 1965, fall joint computer conference, part I
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Multics ( Multi plexed I nformation and C omputing S ervice) is a comprehensive, general-purpose programming system which is being developed as a research project. The initial Multics system will be implemented on the GE 645 computer. One of the overall design goals is to create a computing system which ...
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Structure of the multics supervisor
November 1965
AFIPS '65 (Fall, part I): Proceedings of the November 30--December 1, 1965, fall joint computer conference, part I
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This paper is a preliminary report on a system which has not yet been implemented. Of necessity, it therefore reports on status and objectives rather than on performance. We are impelled to produce such a prospectus by two considerations. First, time-sharing and multiprogramming are currently of great interest to many ...
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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR MULTIPLE -ACCESS, TIME-SHARED COMPUTERS
F. J. Corbato
May 1964
It is now clear that it is possible to create a general-purpose time-shared multiple access system on most contemporary computers. However, it is equally clear that none of the existent computers are well designed for multiple access systems. At present, good service to a few dozen simultaneous users is considered ...
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The Compatible Time-Sharing System: A Programmer's Guide
F. J. Corbató
September 1963
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The linking segment subprogram language and linking loader
July 1963
Communications of the ACM: Volume 6 Issue 7, July 1963
Publisher: ACM
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On the Coding of Jacobi's Method for Computing Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors of Real Symmetric Matrices
F. J. Corbató
April 1963
Journal of the ACM (JACM): Volume 10 Issue 2, April 1963
Publisher: ACM
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An experimental time-sharing system
Fernando J. Corbató,
Marjorie Merwin-Daggett,
Robert C. Daley
May 1962
AIEE-IRE '62 (Spring): Proceedings of the May 1-3, 1962, spring joint computer conference
Publisher: ACM
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It is the purpose of this paper to discuss briefly the need for time-sharing, some of the implementation problems, an experimental timesharing system which has been developed for the contemporary IBM 7090, and finally a scheduling algorithm of one of us (FJC) that illustrates some of the techniques which may ...
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A technique for precise computation with factorials in a digital computer
F. J. Corbato
January 1961
ACM '61: Proceedings of the 1961 16th ACM national meeting
Publisher: ACM
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Computation involving factorials in a digital computer has various hazards. Foremost of the hazards is the rapid build-up of magnitude with argument n, for 10: @@@@ 10 6 and 20: @@@@ 10 18 . Clearly a fixed-point representation will not suffice to avoid overflow except for trivial values of n; ...
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On the coding of Jacobi's method of computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors of real, symmetric matrices
F. J. Corbató
September 1959
ACM '59: Preprints of papers presented at the 14th national meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery
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Generation of Spherical Bessel Functions in Digital Computers
Fernando J. Corbató,
Jack L. Uretsky
July 1959
Journal of the ACM (JACM): Volume 6 Issue 3, July 1959
Publisher: ACM
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A method of computation for spherical Bessel functions of real and imaginary argument is given which is especially suitable for high speed digital computers. The accuracy and convergence are examined and criterion formulas are given. A procedure based on the Wronskian is used to simplify the final normalization.
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Generation of spherical Bessel functions in digital computers
Fernando J. Corbato,
Jack L. Uretsky
June 1958
ACM '58: Preprints of papers presented at the 13th national meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery
Publisher: ACM
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