cak@CS-Mordred (Christopher A Kent) (10/17/84)
I am investigating the memory hierarchy scheme used in the ATLAS computer. In the CACM article "Dynamic Storage Allocation in the Atlas Computer, Including an Automatic Use of a Backing Store", by John Fotheringham, v4, n 10, pp 435, reference is made to a paper by Kilburn, Edwards, Lanigan, and Sumner, entitled "One Level Storage System", which was "submitted to a technical journal for publication". I'd like to find a copy of this paper. Does anyone know if it was ever published, and if so where? Thanks, Chris Kent Purdue CS
faiman@uiucdcsb.UUCP (10/17/84)
The article by Kilburn, et al, that Chris Kent is after, is reproduced as Chapter 23 in the original (1971) edition of "Computer Structures: Readings and Examples", by Bell and Newell, published by McGraw-Hill. It's also Chapter 10 of "Computer Structures: Principles and Examoles", by Siewiorek, Bell and Newell, published in 1982. faiman@uiucdcs
wunder@wdl1.UUCP (wunder ) (10/29/84)
There is a paper called "One-level Storage System" by those authors reprinted in "Computer Structures: Readings and Examples" by Bell and Newell. The current edition of that book is by Siweiorek, Bell, and Newell, and has a slightly different title -- something like "Computer Structures: Foobars, Readings, and Examples". The paper should be reprinted in that edition, too. It is certainly important enough. The whole book is architecture case-studies; pretty much a must-have for architecture crazies. Anyway, "CS: R&E" claims that the paper was originally published in IRE Transactions, EC-11, vol. 2, pp. 223-235, April, 1962. The Atlas system was wonderfully advanced. It invented virtual memory (one-level store) and supervisor calls (extracodes), and used interleaved memory and a pipelined CPU for speed. All that in 1962. Maybe I'll go re-read the paper right now. w underwood PS: Apologies to Mr. Siweiorek if I have munged his name.