19 Jan
2020
19 Jan
'20
11:40 p.m.
I think the following may have been missed, because folks thought it was more
discussion about the CSRG TR/4. Read on...
On Jan 18, 2020, at 01:08, Paul Ruizendaal
<pnr(a)planet.nl> wrote:
At the bottom of page 6 TR/4 references TR/3:
A more complete description of the motivation of the IPC architecture
described here, measurements of a prototype implementation, comparisons
with other work and a complete bibliography are given in CSRG TR/3: “An IPC
Architecture for UNIX”.
This was also in the box: about 50 pages, including a four-page bibliography.
An Architecture for Interprocess Communication in UNIX*
-- DRAFT of June 22, 1981 --
William Joy and Robert Fabry
Paul sez:
Before yesterday I did not know that TR/3 existed and
in my (arguable) view
it is even a bigger find than TR/4, as it gives great insight how design
trade-offs were perceived back in 1981.
Again, I scanned the paper and then Paul aggregated the scans into a single PDF.
It should be available here:
http://cfcl.com/private/CSRG_TR_3.pdf
-r