virtual memory 4465

a quote from Melinda's paper

about some of the commitment to 360-67 and TSS-360:

What was most significant was that the commitment to virtual memory was backed with no successful experience. A system of that period that had implemented virtual memory was the Ferranti Atlas computer, and that was known not to be working well. What was frightening is that nobody who was setting this virtual memory direction at IBM knew why Atlas didn't work. 23

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23 L.W. Comeau, ``CP¡©40, the Origin of VM-370'', Proceedings of SEAS AM82, September, 1982, p. 40.

also more of the above quotes found in old post

some amount of Melinda's paper explores the early CTSS work at MIT and derivatives ... aka multics on the 5th floor 545 tech sq. and cp40, cp67, vm370, virtual machines, etc at the science center on 4th floor 545 tech sq

aka ... not so much ibm, but more mit area.

the science center also did a lot of the stuff leading up to capacity planning

and gml (precursor to sgml, html, xml, etc) was invented in 68 plus 1 at the science center by "G", "M", and "L"

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