TENEX, a paged time sharing system for the PDP-10

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TENEX, a paged time sharing system for the PDP-10

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ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles archive
Proceedings of the third ACM symposium on Operating systems principles table of contents

Palo Alto, California, United States

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Year of Publication: 1971

Authors

Daniel G. Bobrow
Jerry D. Burchfiel
Daniel L. Murphy
Raymond S. Tomlinson

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SIGOPS: ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

This paper appears in the March, 1972, issue of the Communications of the ACM. Its abstract is reproduced below. TENEX is a new time sharing system implemented on a DEC PDP-10 augmented by special paging hardware developed at BBN. This report specified a set of goals which are important for any time sharing system. It describes how the TENEX design and implementation achieve these goals. These include specifications for a powerful multiprocess large memory virtual machine, intimate terminal interaction, comprehensive uniform file and I/O capabilities, and clean flexible system structure. Although the implementation described here required some compromise to achieve a system operational within six months of hardware checkout, TENEX has met its major goals and provided reliable service at several sites and through the ARPA network.

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