Artifact Details

Title

Program Structure in a Multi-Access Computer

Catalog Number

102801917

Type

Document

Description

Research paper supported by Project MAC, an MIT research program sponsored by the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of Defense, under the Office of Naval Research. Includes an introduction to the Multi-Access Computer System (MAC) project, description of program structure concepts including segments, processes and phases, creation and annihilation of processes, declaration of segments and processes, powers of a process, active and inactive segments, conservation of effective names, spheres of protection, program development, and allocation and scheduling. Also includes machine features and references.

Date

1966

Author

J. B. Dennis

Publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Extent

16 pages

Category

Technical Report

Collection Title

Pat Stakem Collection

Credit

Gift of Pat Stakem

Lot Number

X4643.2008