Unpublished writings of Jerome H. Saltzer
System design documents, manuals, departmental memoranda, and
other documents that have been circulated but not formally published.
There is also a list of formal publications.
Last updated 1 July 2009
- Jerome H. Saltzer.
Model License Clauses for Internet Access.
12 December 2000
World-Wide Web page
(An earlier draft dated
12 October 1999 is still available for reference.)
- Jerome H. Saltzer.
Coping with Complexity.
Slides of an invited talk given at the ACM seventeenth Symposium on
Operating Systems Principles, December 14, 1999.
Portable Document Format (PDF/Acrobat)
- Jerome H. Saltzer.
Open Access is only the Tip of the Iceberg.
October 22, 1999.
World-Wide Web page,
ASCII text
- Jerome H. Saltzer, editor
The Athena Technical Plan.
1986-1988 (Reprinted in Project Athena: The First
Five Years, Volume 1. Digital Equipment Corporation,
Hudson, Massachusetts, 1988.)
Also as author.
- George A. Champine, Steven R. Lerman, and Jerome H. Saltzer
Requirements for Next-Generation Educational Computing.
Project Athena: The First Five Years, Volume 7.
Digital Equipment Corporation, Hudson, Massachusetts, 1988.)
- Jerome H. Saltzer.
Project Athena.
Second European SIGOPS
workshop on distributed systems, September 8-10, 1986, Amsterdam.
A summary appeared in Operating Systems Review 21, 1 (January
1987). page 55.
- Jerome H. Saltzer
PC/IP User's Guide: Network programs based on the DoD
Internet Protocol for the IBM Personal Computer.
April 9, 1985 (An updated edition, co-authored
by John Romkey, was issued in March 1986.)
- Jerome H. Saltzer
Hazards of file encryption.
LCS Computer Systems Group Request for Comments 208, May 27, 1981.
In 1998, Kevin E. Fu kindly OCR'ed this paper and rendered it into
World-Wide Web form.
- Jerome H. Saltzer
Comments on the standard Ethernet.
LCS Computer Systems Group Request for Comments 203, November 25, 1980.
- Jerome H. Saltzer, Fernando J. Corbató, Michael Hammer, Frederick
C. Hennie, Jin-Au Kong, Paul L. Penfield, Nils R. Sandell, Donald E.
Troxel, and Joseph Weizenbaum
Position Paper: A Department Computer Facility.
M. I. T. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science; October, 1976.
- Jerome H. Saltzer, Fernando J. Corbató, Michael Hammer, Frederick
C. Hennie, Jin-Au Kong, Paul L. Penfield, Nils R. Sandell, Donald E.
Troxel, and Joseph Weizenbaum
Position Paper II: Proposed Requirements for a Department Educational
Computer Facility.
M. I. T. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science; December, 1976.
- Initial Measurements of Cache Speed.
Multics Technical Bulletin MTB-189. March 18, 1975.
- Jerome H. Saltzer
A Simple Linear Model of Demand Paging Performance.
(preprint of a published paper
with the same title.)
Multics repository document M0131, November 3, 1972
An OCR'ed version of the preprint is available in
Portable Document Format
(Acrobat/PDF).
- Jerome H. Saltzer, editor
The Multics System Programmers Manual.
1966-1969.
Also as author.
- Jerome H. Saltzer.
A Primer on the MIT Dataswitch.
M.I.T. Project MAC Memorandum Mac-M-422. October 6, 1969.
- Jerome H. Saltzer.
Multics System.
Electrotechnical Laboratory, Tokyo, 1967.
(Lecture transcripts, in Japanese. Not available on-line.)
- Jerome H. Saltzer.
Attachment of 2741 typewriter consoles to 7094 CTSS.
CTSS Programming Staff Note 69. February 23, 1967.
- Jerome H. Saltzer.
Proposed extensions to CTSS LOGIN command logic.
CTSS Programming Staff Note 65. February 21, 1966.
- Jerome H. Saltzer.
7094 character set.
CTSS Programming Staff Note 56.
November 29, 1965.
- Jerome H. Saltzer and Robert R. Fenichel.
System Programming Security Measures.
CTSS Programming Staff Note 49. August 28, 1965.
- Jerome H. Saltzer.
Interim total dump and reload program for temporary use with new
file system.
CTSS Programming Staff Note 46.
Undated, ca. June 20, 1965.
- Jerome H. Saltzer.
Experimental additions to the RUNOFF command.
CTSS Programming Staff Note 40. January 8, 1965.
(Original RUNOFF source not located.) A scanned and OCR'ed
version is available in Portable Document Format
(Acrobat/PDF) and as a World Wide Web page.
- Jerome H. Saltzer.
TYPSET and RUNOFF, memorandum editor and type-out commands.
M.I.T. Computation Center Memorandum CC-244 and M.I.T.
Project MAC Memorandum MAC-M-193. November 6, 1964.
(Original RUNOFF source not located.) A scanned and OCR'ed
version is available in Portable Document Format
(Acrobat/PDF) and as a World Wide Web page.
- Jerome H. Saltzer.
A brief introduction to the FAP
language.
M.I.T. Computation Center Memorandum CC-217.
August, 1963--September, 1964.
- Jerome H. Saltzer.
CTSS Technical Notes.
M.I.T. Project MAC Memorandum MAC-M-152. August 24, 1964.
(Later published as M. I. T. Project MAC Technical Report MAC-TR-16, March 1965.)
- Jerome H. Saltzer.
An experiment in the use of the
compatible time-sharing system in the laboratory of a computer
programming subject.
Final report to the M.I.T.
Computation Center on problem M3479, June 15, 1964.
- Jerome H. Saltzer, Thomas N. Hastings, and Robert C. Daley.
Unified control of enabled user traps, including memory protection and
relocation.
CTSS Programming Staff Note 25. April 3, 1964.
- Jerome H. Saltzer.
A 7090 machine language programming
workbook and laboratory.
Master of Science thesis, M. I. T. Dep't of EE. September, 1963.
- Fernando J. Corbató, Jerome H. Saltzer, Neil Barta, and Thomas N.
Hastings.
An Abbreviated description of the MAD compiler language.
M.I.T. Computation Center Memorandum CC-213. June, 1963.
- Jerome H. Saltzer.
CLSYS, a program to facilitate the use of the MAD
translator for large (class-size) batches.
M.I.T. Computation Center Memorandum CC-204. February, 1963.
- Jerome H. Saltzer.
Cards column equivalent of BSS loader.
M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory memorandum S-0038, October 10, 1961.
Serial reports
Library 2000 annual and quarterly reports, 1991-1996
(editor)
Computer Systems Research Group annual reports, 1970-1984 (editor)
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