Butler W. Lampson
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A terminal-oriented communication system
This paper describes a system for full-duplex communication between a time-shared computer and its terminals. The system consists of a communications computer directly…
Reflections on an operating system design
The main features of a general purpose multiaccess operating system developed for the CDC 6400 at Berkeley are presented, and its good and bad points are discussed as…
A note on the confinement problem
onfining a program during its execution so that it cannot transmit information to any other program except its caller. A set of examples attempts to stake out the…
An online, interactive system for text editing is described in detail, with remarks on the theoretical and experimental justification for its form. Emphasis throughout…
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