Publications of Jerome H. Saltzer

A comprehensive list in reverse chronological order

There are also lists of talks that have a written record
and of unpublished materials

Last updated 17 May 2011

The publications listed below span five decades, so the available downloadable files are in several different formats:

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2000–2009

Jerome H. Saltzer and M. Frans Kaashoek.
Principles of Computer System Design: An Introduction.
Part I. Morgan Kaufman, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-12374957-4 (paperback), 564 pages.
Part II. Posted on-line with a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license, 826 pages.
Part II: MIT Open CourseWare posting, Elsevier posting.
Committee on Offensive Information Warfare, National Research Council, William A. Owens, Kenneth W. Dam, and Herbert S. Lin, editors (Thomas A Berson, Gerhard Casper, David D. Clark, Richard L. Garwin, Jack L. Goldsmith, Carl G. O'Berry, Jerome H. Saltzer, Mark Seiden, Sarah Sewall, Walter B. Slocombe, William O. Studeman, and Michael A Vatis).
Technology, Policy, Law, and Ethics Regarding U.S. Acquisition and Use of Cyberattack Capabilities.
National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 2009. ISBN 0-309-13850-7 (paperback).
Web version and ordering information for paperback version.
Committee on Digital Archiving and the National Archives and Records Administration, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council. (Robert Sproull, Howard Besser, Jamie Callan, Charles Dollar, Stuart Haber, Margaret Hedstrom, Mark Kornbluh, Raymond Lorie, Clifford Lynch, Jerome H. Saltzer, Margo Seltzer, Robert Wilensky, and Jon Eisenberg).
Building an Electronic Records Archive at the National Archives and Records Administration: Recommendations for a Long-Term Strategy.
National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 2005. ISBN 0-309-09696-0 (paperback), 112 pages.
Web version and ordering information for paperback version.
Jerome H. Saltzer.
Slammer, an Urgent Wake-up Call.
#35 in Andrew Herbert & Karen Spärck Jones, editors. Computer Systems: theory, technology and applications/A tribute to Roger Needham. Springer, New York, 2004, pages 243-248. Monographs in Computer Science. ISBN 0-387-20170-X
Originally appeared in Computer Systems: Papers for Roger Needham, pages 201-204. (Microsoft Research Limited: Cambridge, England: February 2003.)
Preprint: web page.
Committee on an Information Technology Strategy for the Library of Congress, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council. (James J. O'Donnell, James Blackaby, Ross E. Brown, Ginnie Cooper, Dale Flecker, Nancy Frishberg, James Gray, Margaret Hedstrom, Carl Lagoze, Lawrence H. Landweber, David M. Levy, Ann Okerson, Doug Rowan, Jerome H. Saltzer, Howard Turtle, and Mary Ellen Zurko.)
LC21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress.
National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 2001. ISBN 0-309-07144-5 (paperback), 265 pages.
Web version and ordering information for paperback version.

1990–1999
David P. Reed, Jerome H. Saltzer, and David D. Clark.
Comment on Active Networking and End-to-End Arguments.
IEEE Network 12, 3 (May/June 1998) pages 69-71.
The definitive version of this commentary is available on-line via IEEE Explore (fee or subscription required).
Prepublication version: World-Wide Web page, ASCII text, PDF, © IEEE 1998.
Li Gong, T. Mark A. Lomas, Roger M. Needham, and Jerome H. Saltzer.
Protecting Poorly Chosen Secrets from Guessing Attacks.
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 11, 5 (June 1993) pages 648-656. [Received the 1994 Leonard G. Abraham Best Paper Award of the IEEE Communications Society.]
The definitive version of this paper is available on-line via IEEE Explore (fee or subscription required).
Authors' version: LaTeX source, PDF, © IEEE 1993.
Jerome H. Saltzer.
Technology, Networks, and the Library of the Year 2000.
in A. Bensoussan and J.-P. Verjus, editors, Future Tendencies in Computer Science, Control, and Applied Mathematics. Springer-Verlag, 1992, pages 51-67. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 653. Proceedings of the International Conference on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA), Paris, France, December 1992. ISBN 3-540-56320-2.
Available on-line via SpringerLink (fee or subscription required).
Author's original manuscript: PostScript, PDF. In 1994 Jeremy Hylton kindly ported the manuscript to a web page.
A closely related talk was given at several venues.
Jerome H. Saltzer.
Needed: A Systematic Structuring Paradigm for Distributed Data.
Operating Systems Review 27, 2 (April 1993), pages 77-81. Originally distributed as paper #41 in ACM SIGOPS Fifth European Workshop, September 21-23, 1992, Le Mont Saint-Michel, France, pages 1-5.
Available on-line in two forms in the ACM Digital Library: OSR version, workshop version (fee or subscription required).
Author's original manuscript: web page, PostScript, PDF, slides for talk in PDF.
Jerome H. Saltzer.
File System Indexing, and Backup.
in Arthur Karshmer and Juergen Nehmer, editors. Operating Systems for the 90's and Beyond. Springer-Verlag, 1991, pages 13-19. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 563. Originally distributed at the International Workshop on Operating Systems of the 90s and Beyond, July 8-12 1991, Dagstuhl Castle, Wadern, Germany.
Available on-line via SpringerLink (fee or subscription required).
Author's original manuscript: web page, PostScript, Scribe source, PDF .
Slides for the workshop talk—Indexing slides: PDF (3 megabytes); Backup slides: PDF.
Jerome H. Saltzer.
Fault-Tolerance in Very Large Archive Systems.
Operating Systems Review 25, 1 (January, 1991), pages 81-82. Originally distributed at the ACM SIGOPS Fourth European Workshop, 3-5 September 1990, Bologna, Italy.
Available on-line in two forms in the ACM Digital Library: Workshop version, OSR version (fee or subscription required).
Author's original manuscript: web page, ASCII text, PDF.
Also available: the notes and slides prepared for the workshop talk.

1980–1989
T. Mark A. Lomas, Li Gong, Jerome H. Saltzer, and Roger M. Needham.
Reducing Risks from Poorly Chosen Keys.
ACM Twelfth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, in Operating Systems Review 23, 5 (December 1989) pages 14-18.
The definitive version of this paper is available on-line in the ACM Digital Library (fee or subscription required).
Author's version: TeX source, PDF, © ACM 1989, posted by permission of ACM.
George Champine, Steven Lerman, and Jerome H. Saltzer [honorary author].
Project ATHENA as a Next Generation Educational Computing System.
in GI - 19. Jahrestagung, I, Computergestützter Arbeitsplatz [Proceedings of the 19th annual meeting of the Society for Computer Science: The Computer-Assisted Workplace], edited by Manfred Paul, (October 1989), Informatik-Fachberichte 222. Springer-Verlag, 1989, ISBN 3-540-51821-5, pages 21-29
Not available on-line.
Steven R. Lerman and Jerome H. Saltzer.
Principles of Responsible Use of Project Athena.
M. I. T. Project Athena, version of 1 December 1988. Appeared as "Statement of Ethics". Communications of the ACM 32, 6 (June 1989) page 704. (CACM did not credit Lerman.) Reprinted in Peter J. Denning, editor. Computers Under Attack. ACM Press, New York, 1990, pages 508-510.
Available on-line: PostScript, Scribe source, Correction for CACM version, PDF.
Jerome H. Saltzer.
Some Unsolved Problems of Distributed System Management, as seen from Project Athena. (Notes prepared for a workshop talk.)
In Wolfgang Schroeder-Preikschat and Wolfgang Zimmer, editors. Progress in Distributed Operating Systems and Distributed Systems Management. Springer-Verlag, 1989, page 202. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 433. ISBN 3-540-52609-9
Abstract: available on-line via SpringerLink (fee or subscription required, but the full-text preview displays the entire abstract).
Also available: the author's copy of the abstract and notes prepared for the talk.
Jerome H. Saltzer.
Project Athena Facilities--an Overview for Faculty.
M. I. T. Project Athena, 1988. Reprinted in Project Athena: The First Five Years, Volume 1. Digital Equipment Corporation, Hudson, Massachusetts, 1988.
Version distributed to M.I.T. faculty: Scribe source, PDF ported via pages.app.
George A. Champine, Steven R. Lerman, and Jerome H. Saltzer.
Requirements for Next-Generation Educational Computing.
in Project Athena: The First Five Years, Volume 7. Digital Equipment Corporation, Hudson, Massachusetts, 1988.
Scribe source not located. Not available on-line.
Jerome H. Saltzer, editor.
Project Athena Technical Plan.
M. I. T. Project Athena, 1987. Selected sections were published inn Project Athena: The First Five Years, Volume 1, Digital Equipment Corporation, Hudson, Massachusetts, 1988.
Sections authored or co-authored by Saltzer.
Jerome H. Saltzer, David D. Clark, John L. Romkey, and Wayne C. Gramlich.
The Desktop Computer as a Network Participant.
IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications SAC-3, 3, May, 1985, pages 468-478. A preprint of this paper was distributed at the ACM SIGOPS/IBM Zurich workshop on operating systems in computer networks, 28-30 January 1985.)
The definitive version of this paper is available on-line via IEEE Explore (fee or subscription required).
Preprint: FinalWord source, PDF ported via pages.app, © IEEE 1985.
Jerome H. Saltzer.
System for regenerating a data word on a communications ring.
United States Patent 4,438,520. Filed 22 July 1981, issued 20 March 1984.
Web page from the US Patent Office. Issued patent: PDF of scanned images .
Jerome H. Saltzer.
On The Naming and Binding of Network Destinations.
in Pier Ravasio et al., editors. Local Computer Networks. North Holland, Amsterdam, 1982, pages 311-317.
Also published as Internet RFC 1498, transcribed August 1993 by J. Noel Chiappa.
Published version: Multics runoff source. RFC 1498 version: ASCII text, © IFIP 1982.
Jerome H. Saltzer.
Communication Ring Initialization without Central Control.
M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science Technical Memorandum LCS/TM-202, December 1981.
Available on-line: Multics runoff source, web page.
Jerome H. Saltzer, David D. Clark, and Kenneth T. Pogran.
Why a Ring?
Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM SIGCOMM Seventh Symposium on Data Communications, October, 1981, pages 211-217. The Proceedings were also published as ACM Computer Communication Review 11, 4 (December 1981), with the same page numbers. Republished with minor revisions in Computer Networks 7, 4, August 1983, pages 223-231. Also reprinted in William Stalling, editor. Tutorial: Local Network Technology, IEEE Press, pages 85-90.
The SIGCOMM version of this paper is available on-line in the ACM Digital Library (fee or subscription required), and the Computer Networks version is available on-line via ScienceDirect (fee required).
Computer Networks version: Multics runoff source. In 2000, Thomas Van Vleck kindly rendered the runoff source into a web page, © IEEE, 1981; © Elsevier, 1983.
Jerome H. Saltzer, David P. Reed, and David D. Clark.
End-to-End Arguments in System Design.
A draft dated April 17, 1980, was circulated locally as CSR-RFC-185, and later appeared in the research summaries of the Workshop on Fundamental Issues in Distributed Computing, Pala Mesa Resort, Fallbrook, California (December 16, 1980), pages 256-264. An expanded version appeared in Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (April 1981) pages 509-512. Republished with minor revisions in ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 2, 4, November 1984, pages 277-288. Reprinted in Craig Partridge, editor, Innovations in internetworking. Artech House, Norwood, MA, 1988, pages 195-206. ISBN 0-89006-337-0. Also reprinted in Amit Bhargava, editor, Integrated broadband networks. Artech House, Boston, 1991. ISBN 0-89006-483-0.
The definitive version of this paper is available on-line in the ACM Digital Library (fee or subscription required).
Authors' (TOCS) version: FinalWord source. In 1997, George Coulouris kindly rendered the FinalWord source into A4 PDF, PostScript, Rich Text Format (RTF), and ASCII text. These files © ACM, 1984, posted by permission of ACM. Text before revision © IEEE 1981, reused by permission.
Jerome H. Saltzer, David P. Reed, and David D. Clark.
Source Routing for Campus-Wide Internet Transport.
in Anthony West and Philippe Janson, editors. Local Networks for Computer Communications. North Holland, Amsterdam, 1981, pages 1-23. An earlier version was distributed locally as Local Network Note #22 and published as Internet Engineering Note IEN-144 (March, 1980).
Book version: Multics runoff source, rendered by David Reed as a web page.
IEN-144: ASCII text.
Also available: Slides prepared for a talk given at an IFIP Working Group 6.4 workshop.
Jerome H. Saltzer.
Environment Considerations for Campus-Wide Networks. Internet Engineering Note IEN-143, Internet Engineering Task Force (March 1980). Distributed locally as Local Network Note #21.
IEN-143: ASCII text.

1970–1979
Jerome H. Saltzer and Kenneth T. Pogran.
A Star-Shaped Ring Network with High Maintainability.
NBS-Mitre Local Area Communications Network Symposium (May, 1979) pages 179-190. Reprinted in Computer Networks 4, 5 (October 1980) pages 239-244.
Multics runoff source (Figures in separate file). In 2000, Thomas Van Vleck kindly rendered this paper into a web page (Figures in separate file).
Figures, scanned from a paper original: PDF.
Jerome H. Saltzer.
Performance Analysis and Evaluation: No Connection with Reality. Discussion of a paper by James C. Browne.
In Peter Wegner, editor, Research Directions in Software Technology. M. I. T. Press, Cambridge, 1979, pages 652-654. Note that there is a paper by Wegner with the same title as the book, in the 1978 Third International Conference on Software Technology. Wegner's paper includes just the abstract of the Browne paper and omits the discussion.
(Copy not available on-line.)
Michael D. Schroeder, David D. Clark, Jerome H. Saltzer, and Douglas Wells.
Final Report of the Multics Kernel Design Project.
M. I. T. Project MAC Technical Report MAC-TR-196, March 1978. 111 pages.
Original Multics runoff source not located. PDF of scanned page images. [Large file warning: 4.4 megabytes.]
Rudolph Bayer, Robert M. Graham, Jerome H. Saltzer, and Gerhard Seegmuller.
Introduction.
in Rudolph Bayer, et al. Operating Systems--An Advanced Course. Springer-Verlag, 1978, pages 2-6. Lecture Notes on Computer Science 60.
Available on-line via SpringerLink (fee or subscription required).
Jerome H. Saltzer.
Naming and Binding of Objects.
in Rudolph Bayer, et al. Operating Systems--An Advanced Course. Springer-Verlag, 1978, pages 99-208. Lecture Notes on Computer Science 60.
Originally prepared off-line. Available on-line via SpringerLink (fee or subscription required).
In 1999 Vladimir Marangozov kindly scanned, converted to text form with OCR, and made this paper available as a web page and in PDF, © Springer-Verlag, 1978.
Jerome H. Saltzer.
Research Problems of Decentralized Systems with Largely Autonomous Nodes.
in ACM Operating Systems Review 12, 1 (January 1978) pages 43-52. Reprinted in Rudolph Bayer, et al, editors. Operating Systems--An Advanced Course. Springer-Verlag, 1978, pages 583-593. Lecture Notes on Computer Science 60. Based on a colloquium talk given at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, June 2, 1977.
The OSR version is available on-line in the ACM Digital Library (fee or subscription required).
The LCNS version is available on-line via SpringerLink (fee or subscription required).
Scan and OCR of OSR paper original: PDF.
Jerome H. Saltzer.
On Digital Signatures.
ACM Operating Systems Review 12, 1 (January 1978) pages 12-14.
Preprint distributed as CSR RFC #148, August 30, 1977.
The definitive version of this paper is available on-line in the ACM Digital Library (fee or subscription required).
CSR RFC #148 preprint: PDF of scanned page images, © ACM, 1978. This preprint is the author's version of the work. Posted by permission of ACM.
Michael D. Schroeder, David D. Clark, and Jerome H. Saltzer.
The Multics Kernel Design Project.
Sixth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, in ACM Operating Systems Review 11, 5 (November 1977) pages 43-56.
Draft/preprint distributed as CSR RFC #140, March 31, 1977.
The definitive version of this paper is available on-line in the ACM Digital Library (fee or subscription required).
CSR RFC #140 preprint: PDF of scanned page images, © ACM, 1977. This preprint is the authors' version of the work. Posted by permission of ACM.
Jerome H. Saltzer.
Review 31363: The Solo operating system: A Concurrent Pascal program, by Per Brinch Hansen.
Computing Reviews 18, 5 (May 1977) page 184.
(Review not available on-line.)
Jerome H. Saltzer.
Review 31353: Disk Scheduling at compile time, by Per Brinch Hansen.
Computing Reviews 18, 6 (May 1977) page 181.
(Review not available on-line.)
Jerome H. Saltzer.
Computer.
in Yearbook of Science and Technology McGraw-Hill, New York, 1976, pages 142-143.
(Article not available on-line.)
Jerome H. Saltzer.
Technical Possibilities and Problems in Protecting Data in Computer Systems.
in Rudiger Dierstein et al., editors. Datenschutz und Datensicherung. J. P. Bachem Verlag, Cologne, 1976, pages 27-36. Preprint distributed as Computer Systems Research Group RFC #125, September 30, 1976.
CSR RFC #125 preprint—scan and OCR of paper original: PDF.
Also available: Slides for a talk based on this paper.
Jerome H. Saltzer.
On the Modeling of Paging Algorithms.
ACM Forum, Communications of the ACM 19, 5 (May 1976) pages 307-308. Preprint distributed as Computer Systems Research Group RFC #106, February 13, 1976.
The definitive version of this letter is available on-line in the ACM Digital Library (fee or subscription required).
CSR RFC #106 preprint—scan and OCR of paper original: PDF, © ACM, 1976. This preprint is the author's version of the work. Posted by permission of ACM.
Jerome H. Saltzer, and Michael D. Schroeder.
The Protection of Information in Computer Systems. (invited tutorial paper)
Proceedings of the IEEE 63, 9 (September 1975) pages 1278-1308. Reprinted in David D. Clark and David D. Redell, editors. Protection of Information in Computer Systems. IEEE 1975 CompCon tutorial. IEEE # 75CH1050-4. Also reprinted in Rein Turn, editor. Advances in Computer System Security. ArTech House, Dedham, MA, 1981, pages 105-135. ISBN 0-89006-096-7 Also reprinted in Marvin S. Levin, Steven B. Lipner, and Paul A. Karger. Protecting Data & Information: A Workshop in Computer & Data Security. Digital Equipment Corporation, 1982.
This paper was originally prepared off-line. A scanned copy as it appeared in Proc. IEEE is available on-line via IEEE Explore (fee or subscription required). In 1997, Norman Hardy kindly rendered it into a set of Web pages, © 1975 retained by the authors.
Jerome H. Saltzer, chair
System Implications of Advancing Storage Technology (panel discussion)
AFIPS 1975 National Computer Conference, Cassette tape NCC-63, AFIPS Press, Montvale, New Jersey, 1975. Review #29477 in Computing Reviews 17, 1 (January 1976).
(Recording not available on-line.)
Jerome H. Saltzer.
Ongoing Research and Development in Information Protection.
ACM Operating Systems Review 8, 3 (July 1974) pages 8-24. Reprinted in Computer Security and Privacy Symposium. Honeywell Information Systems, August 1975, pages 53-62.
The OSR version of this paper is available on-line in the ACM Digital Library (fee or subscription required).
Pre-publication version—scan and OCR of paper original: PDF.
Jerome H. Saltzer.
Protection and the Control of Information Sharing in Multics.
Fourth ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles (October 1973) pages 10-24 of preprint package. Revised version appeared in Communications of the ACM 17, 7 (July 1974) pages 388-402. Note: Some preprints carried the title "Information Protection and the Control of Sharing in the Multics System." Reprinted in David D. Clark and David D. Redell, editors. Protection of Information in Computer Systems. IEEE 1975 CompCon tutorial. IEEE # 75CH1050-4. Reviewed (#27327) in Computing Reviews 15, 10 (October 1974).
The definitive (CACM) version of this paper is available on-line in the ACM Digital Library (fee or subscription required).
Preprint—scan and OCR of paper original: 11 x 14 inch PDF.
Jerome H. Saltzer.
A Simple Linear Model of Demand Paging Performance.
Communications of the ACM 17, 4 (April 1974) pages 181-186.
A preprint was distributed as Multics Repository document M0131, November 3, 1972.
The definitive version of this paper is available on-line in the ACM Digital Library (fee or subscription required).
M0131 preprint—scan and OCR of paper original: PDF, © ACM, 1974. The preprint is the author's version of the work, posted by permission of ACM.
Jerome H. Saltzer.
Introduction to Multics.
M. I. T. Project MAC Technical Report MAC-TR-123, January 1974. Also published as Multiplexed Information and Computing Service: Programmers' Manual Part I, Introduction (9/30/73). Honeywell Corporation.
Original Multics runoff source not located. PDF of scanned page images, courtesy of Library 2000 and the MIT Libraries. [Large file warning: 15 megabytes.]
Jerome H. Saltzer and Douglas H. Hunt.
Some recently repaired security holes in Multics.
Project Mac Computer Systems Research Request for Comments #47 (28 January 1974), later reprinted in David D. Clark, editor. Ancillary Reports: Kernel Design Project. MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Technical Memo MIT/LCS/TM-87, 1977.
RFC-47—scan & OCR of paper original: PDF.
Jerome H. Saltzer, Philippe A. Janson, and Douglas H. Hunt.
Some Multics security holes which were closed by 6180 hardware.
Project Mac Computer Systems Research Request for Comments #46 (28 January 1974), later reprinted in David D. Clark, editor. Ancillary Reports: Kernel Design Project. MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Technical Memo MIT/LCS/TM-87, 1977.
RFC-46—scan & OCR of paper original: PDF.
Jerome H. Saltzer.
Repaired security bugs in Multics.
Project Mac Computer Systems Research Request for Comments #5 (7 February 1973), later reprinted in David D. Clark, editor, Ancillary Reports: Kernel Design Project. MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Technical Memo MIT/LCS/TM-87, 1977.
RFC-5—scan & OCR of paper original: PDF.
Corbató, F. J., Jerome H. Saltzer, and Clingen, C. T.
Multics—The First Seven Years.
AFIPS Conf. Proc 40 (1972 Spring Joint Computer Conference) AFIPS Press, 1972, pages 571-583. Preprint distributed as Multics document M0130, 17 January 1972. Reprinted in Paul H. Rosenthal and Russell K. Mink, editors. Multi-Access Computing: modern research and requirements. Hayden Books, Rochelle Park, 1974, pages 116-139. Reviewed (#25199) in Computing Reviews 14, 6 (June 1973) and (#27971) in 15, 3 (March 1975).
Originally prepared off-line. The Computer History Museum scanned this paper and the IEEE Computer Society has posted it in the CSDigital Library. Thomas Van Vleck kindly scanned and OCR'ed this paper and rendered it as a web page. His original link-annotated version is available on the Multicians web site.
M0130 preprint: PDF of scanned page images. [Large file warning: 2.5 megabytes.]
Michael D. Schroeder and Jerome H. Saltzer.
A Hardware Architecture for Implementing Protection Rings.
Third ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (October, 1971) pages 42-54. A preprint dated August 2, 1971, was distributed locally as Multics document M0126. Revised version appeared in Communications of the ACM 15, 3 (March 1972) pages 157-170. Reprinted in Lance Hoffmann, editor. Security and Privacy in Computer Systems. Melville, Los Angeles, 1973, pages 318-350.
Original runoff source not located.
The CACM version of this paper is available on-line in the ACM Digital Library (fee or subscription required). Beware that the ACM Digital Library appears also to offer the SOSP version, but the downloadable file contains only the abstract.
M0126 version, as submitted to SOSP: PDF of scanned page images. [Large file warning: 3 megabytes.]
Authors' version, as submitted to CACM—scan (by Michael Schroeder) and OCR (by Thomas Van Vleck) of paper original: PDF, © ACM 1972. Posted by permission of ACM.
Jerome H. Saltzer.
Some Observations about Decentralization of File Systems.
Digest IEEE COMPCON, September 1971, pages 163-164. Preprint prepared in May 1971 and distributed locally as Multics document M0128.
M0128 preprint—scan and OCR of paper original: PDF.
David D. Clark, Robert M. Graham, Jerome H. Saltzer, and Michael D. Schroeder.
The Classroom Information and Computing Service.
M. I. T. Project MAC Technical Report MAC-TR-80, January 1971. Reviewed (#24770) in Computing Reviews 14, 3 (March 1973).
Web page containing an abstract. The report itself is not available on-line.
Joseph F. Ossanna and Jerome H. Saltzer.
Technical and Human Engineering Problems in Connecting Terminals to a Time-Sharing System.
AFIPS Conf. Proc. 37 (1970 Fall Joint Computer Conference) AFIPS Press, 1970, pages 355-362. Reviewed (#24885) in Computing Reviews 14, 4 (April 1973).
Original roff source not located.
The Computer History Museum scanned this paper and the IEEE Computer Society has posted it in the CSDigital Library.
Draft of April 12, 1970 (AFIPS submission)—scan and OCR of paper original: PDF, © AFIPS 1970.
Jerome H. Saltzer and Joseph F. Ossanna.
Remote Terminal Character Stream Processing in Multics.
AFIPS Conf. Proc. 36 (1970 Spring Joint Computer Conference) AFIPS Press, 1970, pages 621-627. Preprint distributed as Multics document M0121, 10 March 1970. Reviewed (#19796) in Computing Reviews 11, 9 (September 1970).
Originally prepared off-line. The Computer History Museum scanned this paper and the IEEE Computer Society has posted it in the CSDigital Library. However, the posted file includes two pages of the previous Proceedings paper and omits the last page of this paper; the missing last page appears at the beginning of the next paper in the Proceedings. If searching for the paper be warned that the CSDigital Library entry omits the letter "t" in my last name. The paper is also available (correctly scanned) in the ACM Digital Library (fee or subscription required).
M0121 preprint—scan and OCR of paper original: PDF. Slides used in the conference presentation: PDF.

1960–1969
Jerome H. Saltzer and John W. Gintell.
The Instrumentation of Multics.
Second ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (December, 1969) pages 167-174. A preprint was distributed locally as M0112. Revised version appeared in Communications of the ACM 13, 8 (August 1970) pages 495-500. Reprinted in P. Freeman, Software Systems Principles. Science Research Associates, Chicago, 1975, pages 524-536. Reviewed (#23233) in Computing Reviews 12, 5 (May 1971).
Both the SOSP and the CACM versions of this paper are available in the ACM Digital Library (fee or subscription required).
John Gintell kindly scanned the CACM version and rendered it into a web page, © ACM, 1970. The web page is the author's version of the work, posted by permission of ACM.
M0112 preprint of the SOSP version: PDF of scanned page images, courtesy of Roger Roach, Olin Sibert, and the Multics History Project.
Fernando J. Corbató and Jerome H. Saltzer.
Some Considerations of Supervisor Program Design for Multiplexed Computer Systems.
IFIP Congress 1968 Invited Papers, North-Holland, 1968, pp. 66-71. Preprint distributed as Project Mac Memorandum MAC-M-372, May 1968. Reviewed (#16243) in Computing Reviews 10, 2 (February 1969).
IFIP version not available on-line.
MAC-M-372 preprint—scan and OCR of paper original: PDF.
Jerome H. Saltzer.
Review of "Development of Executive Routines, Both Hardware and Software," by A. B. Tonik.
Review R68-41, IEEE Transactions on Computer Systems C-17, 9 (September 1968) pages 923-924.
This review is available on-line in the IEEE Computer Society CSDigital Library.
Preprint—scan and OCR of paper original: ASCII text.
Jerome H. Saltzer.
Traffic Control in a Multiplexed Computer System.
M. I. T. Project MAC Technical Report MAC-TR-30, June 1966. (The author's Sc.D. thesis.)
CTSS runoff source not located. PDF of scanned page images. [Large file warning: 4 megabytes.]
The original thesis is on-line at the MIT Libraries.
Jerome H. Saltzer.
Manuscript Typing and Editing.
Section AH.9.01 in The Compatible Time-Sharing System, A Programmer's Guide. Patricia Crisman, editor, second edition, M. I. T. Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1965. An earlier version was distributed as TYPSET and RUNOFF, Memorandum editor and type-out commands. Computation Center Memorandum and Project MAC Memorandum CC-244/MAC-M-193, 6 November 1964.
Original CTSS runoff source not located.
December 1966 version—scan and OCR from paper original: PDF, web page.
Jerome H. Saltzer.
CTSS Technical Notes.
M. I. T. Project MAC Technical Report MAC-TR-16, March 1965. Originally distributed as Project MAC Memorandum MAC-M-152.
Original CTSS runoff source not located. PDF of scanned page images . [Large file warning: 5.5 megabytes.]
Fernando J. Corbató, John W. Poduska, and Jerome H. Saltzer.
Advanced Computer Programming.
M. I. T. Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1963. ISBN 978-0-262-03006-9 (Out of print). 170 pages.
Originally prepared off-line. PDF of scanned page images, courtesy of bitsavers.org. © M.I.T. 1963. [Large file warning: 9 megabytes.]
William L. Black and Jerome H. Saltzer.
Resistive Diode Network Theory.
Tech Engineering News XLI, 4 (January 1960) pages 18-23.
Originally prepared off-line. PDF of scanned page images, © M.I.T. 1960.

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