Everything about Multics

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: MulticsA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: The Mythical Man-MonthThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: Protection and the control of information sharing in multicsCited 258 times
4. Go sideways: General Comprehensive Operating SystemA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: Stratus VOSA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Protection and the control of information sharing in multics

  Jerome H. Saltzer · 1974 · Communications of the ACM · 258 citations

• Virtual memory, processes, and sharing in MULTICS

  Robert C. Daley, Jack B. Dennis · 1968 · Communications of the ACM · 88 citations

• The Multics virtual memory

  A. Bensoussan, C. T. Clingen, R. C. Daley · 1972 · Communications of the ACM · 84 citations

• The instrumentation of multics

  Jerome H. Saltzer, John W. Gintell · 1970 · Communications of the ACM · 27 citations

• MultiCS: Circuit switched NoC with multiple sub-networks and sub-channels

  Shaoteng Liu, Axel Jantsch, Zhonghai Lu · 2015 · Journal of Systems Architecture · 12 citations

• The Multics kernel design project

  Michael D. Schroeder, David D. Clark, Jerome H. Saltzer · 1977 · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review · 7 citations

• Engineering a security kernel for Multics

  Michael D. Schroeder · 1975 · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review · 4 citations

• Protection and control of information sharing in multics

  Jerome H. Saltzer · 1973 · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review · 2 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The Mythical Man-MonthFrederick P. Brooks · 1974
• The Multics systemElliott Irving Organick · 1972
• Data structures and operating systemsTeodor Rus · 1979
• 📕The Multiplexed information and computing service · 1973
• 📕Contrôle de l'accès aux objets partagés dans les systèmes informatiques · 1978
• 📕Structuri de date și sisteme operativeTeodor Rus · 1974

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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