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MTBs

Multics Technical Bulletins Index

Multics Technical Bulletins (MTBs) were development white papers produced by project members and circulated to everyone on the team. They followed the series of over 1000 Multics Checkout Bulletins produced during the initial implementation of the system.

Starting in 1976, some internal-only matters were covered by Multics Staff Bulletins instead.

MTBs written since the release of the Multics Simulator in 2015 are indexed on a separate page.

(July 2018) 472 MTBs scanned by the Multics History Project have been added to the website and linked from this index.

MTBs 545-770 were reformatted into HTML from versions obtained from the MIT AFS archives.

year MTBs (16 years)
20231
198710
198635
198521
198454
198347
198235
198156
198041
197931
197849
197737
197668
197598
1974121
197328
MTB-001, 1973-09-27, Multics Change Requests for September, M. Hodges

MTB-002, 1973-10-10, enter_daemon_request, Gary C. Dixon

MTB-003, 1973-11-08, Multics Standard Tape Record Length, Noel I. Morris

MTB-004, 1973-10-22, Proposed New I/O Daemon Design, Robert S. Coren

MTB-005, 1973-10-23, Multics Change Requests, M. Hodges

MTB-006, 1973-10-24, Proposed ring 1 exchanges prior to implementation of new mail and send_message commands., Peter Haber

MTB-007, 1973-10-25, New command, sort, to replace the current sort_file command, and a new subroutine, sort_, Ross Klinger

MTB-008, 1973-10-29, truncate_, a proposed new subroutine, Gary C. Dixon

MTB-009, 1973-10-22, Multics Change Requests, M. Hodges

MTB-010, 1973-10-30, The New I/O System, M. Donald MacLaren

MTB-011, 1973-11-06, Metering tools and security, Robert F. Mabee

MTB-012, 1973-11-07, New procedure tracing command, Barry L. Wolman

MTB-013, 1973-11-01, The dial facility, T. H. Van Vleck

MTB-014, 1973-11-16, neted: A Common Editor for the ARPA Network, Michael A. Padlipsky

MTB-015, 1973-11-16, Multics Change Requests, M. Hodges

MTB-016, 1973-11-15, Proposed Changes to the SYSERR and OPERATOR's CONSOLE Software, Bill Silver

MTB-017, 1973-11-21, The Storage Problem, T. H. Van Vleck, Steven H. Webber, André Bensoussan

MTB-018, 1973-12-03, Multics Change Requests, M. Hodges

MTB-019, 1973-11-28, Some Thoughts on the Handling of Files, Gary C. Dixon

MTB-020, 1973-12-04, Register Allocation Via Usage Counts, Robert A. Freiburghouse

MTB-021, 1973-11-30, New version of the sort_file command, and a new subroutine, sort_file_, Ross Klinger

MTB-022, 1973-12-03, Proposed new commands, Ross Klinger

MTB-023, 1973-12-21, Modification of Disk Device Assignments in Multics, Noel I. Morris

MTB-024, 1973-11-28, Facilitating modifications to ring 0 gates, Michael D. Schroeder

MTB-025, 1973-12-07, More on the New I/O System, M. Donald MacLaren

MTB-026, 1973-12-19, Multics Change Requests, M. Hodges

MTB-027, 1974-01-02, Multics Change Requests, M. Hodges

MTB-028, 1973-12-31, Ideas for a GIM replacement, Noel I. Morris

MTB-029, 1974-01-02, 6180 hardware modifications, S. Webber

MTB-030, 1974-01-03, Metering tools and security, R. F. Mabee

MTB-031, 1973-12-28, The Multics Online Installation System, P. Kelley

MTB-032, 1974-01-02, Proposed Command Name Usage Monitor, D. Kayden, R. Roach

MTB-033, 1974-01-07, Cost Comparison of TSO and Multics, M. Schroeder

MTB-034, 1974-01-07, The Tape Mount Package, A Tape DIM, and tdcm, D. Capps

MTB-035, 1974-01-09, Design of a Dynamic Linker Running Outside Multics Security Kernel, Phillipe Janson

MTB-036, 1974-01-18, Multics Change Requests, M. Hodges

MTB-037, 1974-01-28, The Performance Problem, S. Webber

MTB-038, 1974-02-12, Proposed new mail and send_message commands, Peter Haber

MTB-039, 1974-02-06, Multics Change Requests, M. Hodges

MTB-040, 1974-02-06, A Unified Command Language, Robert A. Freiburghouse

MTB-041, 1974-02-12, Multics Change Requests Index, M. S. Hodges

MTB-042, 1974-02-12, Modifications to list, listnames, and listotals Commands, Thomas A. Casey

MTB-043, 1974-02-20, Multics Change Requests, M. S. Hodges

MTB-044, 1974-03-01, Multics Change Requests, M. S. Hodges

MTB-045, 1974-02-28, Addendum to MTB-034: Changed Calling Sequences, Dennis Capps

MTB-046, 1974-03-01, Software for Inter-System File Transfer, Robert S. Coren, Michael J. Grady

MTB-047, 1974-03-13, Additional Security Controls for Multics, Jerry Stern

MTB-048, 1974-03-05, Change to Configuration Cards, Noel I. Morris

MTB-049, 1974-03-15, Replacement for the Current TTYDIM/355 Software, R. B. Snyder

MTB-050, 1974-03-18, Multics Change Requests, M. S. Hodges

MTB-051, 1974-03-12, New Tape DCM, F. A. Canali

MTB-052, 1974-02-27, NPS/355 as the Front-end Processor for Multics, R. W. Franklin

MTB-053, 1974-03-20, A Unified Command Language (Revision 1), Robert A. Freiburghouse

MTB-054, 1974-03-21, Proposal for Multics Cache Software, Bernard S. Greenberg

MTB-055, 1974-03-12, The New Storage System - Overview, T. H. Van Vleck, Steven H. Webber, André Bensoussan

MTB-056, 1974-03-27, I/O Interfacer Design Specifications, Noel I. Morris

MTB-057, 1974-03-27, Proposed Modifications to the Multics Encapsulation of the GCOS System, R. R. Riedesel

MTB-058, 1974-04-01, Multics Change Requests, M. S. Hodges

MTB-059, 1974-04-02, Rules for and Responsibilities of PLM Editors, Steven H. Webber

MTB-060, 1974-04-05, New Storage System Paging Analysis, Steven H. Webber

MTB-061, 1974-05-15, New I/O System Features, M. Donald MacLaren

MTB-062, 1974-04-17, Multics Change Requests, M. S. Hodges

MTB-063, 1974-04-17, The Command Language Revisited, Robert A. Freiburghouse

MTB-064, 1974-04-16, Proposed Consolidation of Commands Which Deal with Extended Access, Peter Haber

MTB-065, 1974-04-19, A New Bound on the Performance of the Proposed New Storage System, David P. Reed

MTB-066, 1974-04-19, New Multics Scheduler Proposal, Steven H. Webber

MTB-067, 1974-05-02, Implementing Security Enhancements to the Interprocess Communication Facility, Douglas H. Hunt

MTB-068, 1974-04-23, An Generalized Sorting Facility, Ross Klinger

MTB-069, 1974-03-18, Backup Performance, Robert E. Mullen

MTB-070, 1974-05-01, New Mail Commands, Steve Herbst

MTB-071, 1974-05-02, Proposed New Syserr Codes, Bill Silver

MTB-072, 1974-05-01, Operator's Console Recovery, Bill Silver

MTB-073, 1974-05-06, Multics Change Requests, M. S. Hodges

MTB-074, 1974-05-07, I/O Buffer Management in Multics, Noel I. Morris, Bernard S. Greenberg

MTB-075, 1974-05-22, Considerations for Evaluating Multics Security Enhancements, John W. Gintell, Jerold C. Whitmore

MTB-076, 1974-05-14, The Tape Mount Package: Initial Version, Dennis Capps

MTB-077, 1974-05-15, MPM Documentation for I/O System, M. Donald MacLaren

MTB-078, 1974-05-14, Modifications to System Control Process for Security Enhancements, Paul A. Green

MTB-079, 1974-05-17, Security Access Controls - Potential Problems, Jerold C. Whitmore

MTB-080, 1974-05-28, Creating Special-Purpose Translators, Gary C. Dixon

MTB-081, 1974-05-02, Additional Storage System Security Controls, Andrew M. Kobziar

MTB-082, 1974-05-23, Multics Change Requests, M. S. Hodges

MTB-083, 1974-05-30, Solutions for Security Holes in Additional Storage Controls, Andrew M. Kobziar

MTB-084, 1974-05-31, Multics Change Requests, M. S. Hodges

MTB-085, 1974-06-01, New Message Commands, Steve Herbst

MTB-086, 1974-05-30, Proposal for a Subroutine to Find Matching ACL Names, Peter Haber

MTB-087, 1974-06-05, Multics Performance Goals for 1974, C. T. Clingen

MTB-088, 1974-06-06, Multics Change Requests Index, M. S. Hodges

MTB-089, 1974-06-07, Extending the Multics Security Kernel to Ring 1, Jerry Stern

MTB-090, 1974-06-10, Implementation of the ANSI Standard Tape I/O Module, Frank Canali, Gary C. Dixon, Ross Klinger, Janice Phillipps

MTB-091, 1974-06-17, Multics Change Requests, M. S. Hodges

MTB-092, 1974-06-27, Redefinition of "*", "." and Missing Components (Supersedes MTB-086), Peter Haber

MTB-093, 1974-06-20, The reduction_compiler and lex_string_, Gary C. Dixon

MTB-094, 1974-07-11, Runtime Parameter Checking, Melanie Weaver

MTB-095, 1974-06-26, Adding Support for Secure Removable Disk Packs to Multics, T. H. Van Vleck

MTB-096, 1974-07-01, Implementation of the IBM Standard Tape I/O Module, Frank Canali, Gary C. Dixon, Ross Klinger, Janice Phillipps

MTB-097, 1974-07-10, Multics Change Requests, M. S. Hodges

MTB-098, 1974-07-18, Multics Change Requests, M. S. Hodges

MTB-099, 1974-07-08, Description and Specification for an On-Line Bug File Editor, Ed Wallman

MTB-100, 1974-07-19, Multics Data Security and Access Control, Jerold C. Whitmore

MTB-101, 1974-07-22, Additional Access Controls for Message Segments, Jerry Stern

MTB-102, 1974-07-26, New runoff Command Written in PL/I, Dennis Capps

MTB-103, 1974-07-25, The Protection Audit Mechanisms for Multics, Lee Scheffler

MTB-104, 1974-06-18, Known Segment Table (KST) Change Proposal, Steven H. Webber

MTB-105, 1974-07-08, New Page Control Design Proposals, Steven H. Webber

MTB-106, 1974-07-30, A New Symbolic Debugger, Jeff Broughton

MTB-107, 1974-07-30, Extension to the Backup System, Grace Ackerman-Lewis

MTB-108, 1974-08-02, Multics Change Requests, M. S. Hodges

MTB-109, 1974-08-06, Multics Tape Facility, Bill Silver, Max Smith

MTB-110, 1974-08-07, Implementation of Proposed New Storage System, Thomas H. Van Vleck, Steve H. Webber, André Bensoussan

MTB-111, 1974-08-16, Multics Change Requests, M. S. Hodges

MTB-112, 1974-08-01, Consolidated Search Facility, Txom McGary

MTB-113, 1974-08-11, A Generalized Ready Message Program, Jay Goldman

MTB-114, 1974-09-04, Multics Change Requests Index, M. S. Hodges

MTB-115, 1974-09-05, Multics Change Requests, M. S. Hodges

MTB-116, 1974-09-16, Multics Change Requests, M. S. Hodges

MTB-117, 1974-09-19, Proposed I/O Facility for Spooling Off-line Printer Requests to Tape, Janice Phillipps

MTB-118, 1974-09-18, More on Protection Auditing, Lee Scheffler

MTB-119, 1974-10-10, Resource Control Package, Bill Silver

MTB-120, 1974-09-30, New probe Command, John W. Gintell

MTB-121, 1974-10-14, Multics Change Requests, M. S. Hodges

MTB-122, 1974-10-04, Mail Subroutines, Steve Herbst

MTB-123, 1974-09-23, Modifications to the status Command, Jerold C. Whitmore

MTB-124, 1974-09-23, Reporting Process Access Mode to the User, Jerold C. Whitmore

MTB-125, 1974-10-02, New list Command, Thomas A. Casey

MTB-126, 1974-10-12, Revision of Multics Performance Tests, Roger A. Roach

MTB-127, 1974-10-15, tape_ansi_ IO Module, Ross Klinger

MTB-128, 1974-10-21, Multics Change Requests, M. S. Hodges

MTB-129, 1974-10-29, I/O Daemon Modifications for the Access Isolation Mechanism, Jerry Stern, Jerold C. Whitmore

MTB-130, 1974-10-18, On the Cardreaderless Unified Bootload Tape, Bernard S. Greenberg

MTB-131, 1974-11-05, Multics Change Requests, Betsy Kerr

MTB-132, 1974-11-05, Multics Performance Test Results, Roger A. Roach

MTB-133, 1974-11-08, New Library Tools: library_map, library_print, library_descriptor, and multics_libraries_, Gary C. Dixon

MTB-134, 1974-11-06, New Library Tools: Design Principles, Gary C. Dixon

MTB-135, 1974-10-23, A Guide to Efficient PL/I Constructs in the Multics Environment, Richard A. Barnes

MTB-136, 1974-11-14, tape_mult_ I/O Module, Bill Silver

MTB-137, 1974-11-14, New Multics Graphics Package, Lee J. Scheffler

MTB-138, 1974-11-15, Multics Change Requests Index, Betsy Kerr

MTB-139, 1974-11-15, Multi-Segment Files, Steve Herbst

MTB-140, 1974-11-18, estimate_bill command, F. C. Smith

MTB-141, 1974-11-25, Multics Change Requests, Betsy Kerr

MTB-142, 1974-12-06, Multics Change Requests, Betsy Kerr

MTB-143, 1974-12-12, The Multics Card Input Facility, Stan Vestal

MTB-144, 1974-12-12, Restructuring of the I/O Daemon Driver Software, Jerold C. Whitmore

MTB-145, 1974-12-11, Reporting Status from Peripheral Devices, Noel I. Morris

MTB-146, 1974-12-13, Backup Performance Gains, Robert E. Mullen

MTB-147, 1975-01-10, Multics Database Management Facility, Oris D. Friesen

MTB-148, 1975-01-06, Multics Change Requests, Betsy Kerr

MTB-149, 1974-12-30, New list Command - Revision 1, Thomas A. Casey

MTB-150, 1974-11-26, A Proposal for Processes to be Used in the Supervisor, Robert F. Mabee

MTB-151, 1975-01-10, Improvements to the Answering Service, T. H. Van Vleck

MTB-152, 1975-01-13, Unattended Operation of Multics, T. H. Van Vleck

MTB-153, 1975-01-13, Indexing Multics Manuals, T. H. Van Vleck

MTB-154, 1974-12-12, A Proposal for Removing Name Space Management from Ring Zero., Richard G. Bratt

MTB-155, 1975-01-13, Changes to convert_date_to_binary_, Gary C. Dixon

MTB-156, 1975-01-21, Management of System Pool Storage, Stan Vestal

MTB-157, 1975-02-13, Document Standards, MPM Descriptions, G. J. Pillsbury

MTB-158, 1975-02-04, I/O Interfacer Access to Disk, Noel I. Morris

MTB-159, 1975-02-07, Multics Change Requests, Betsy Kerr

MTB-160, 1975-02-07, Multics Change Requests, Betsy Kerr

MTB-161, 1975-02-14, Multics Change Requests, Betsy Kerr

MTB-162, 1975-02-28, Multics Removable Disk I/O Module, J. A. Weeldreyer

MTB-163, 1975-02-03, Online T&D and Operator Interface, John Rhodes

MTB-164, 1975-03-03, Multics Change Requests, Betsy Kerr

MTB-165, 1975-03-03, New Runoff, Dennis Capps

MTB-166, 1975-03-03, New library_fetch command, Arlene Scherer

MTB-167, 1975-02-28, New Storage System Disk Usage, T. H. Van Vleck, André Bensoussan

MTB-168, 1975-03-03, New Command Processor Conventions, Steven H. Webber

MTB-169, 1975-03-07, Prelinking, Steven H. Webber

MTB-170, 1975-03-06, Page Multilevel, Bernard S. Greenberg, Steven H. Webber

MTB-171, 1975-03-05, Restructuring the Way the Answering Service Handles Terminals, Paul A. Green

MTB-172-04, 1975-03-12, Interim File Recovery: Backup to Disk., Ed Wallman

MTB-173, 1975-03-12, Proposed Changes to the Syserr Mechanism, Bill Silver, T. H. Van Vleck, David R. Vinograd

MTB-174, 1975-03-17, Multics Performance Test Results, Roger A. Roach

MTB-175, 1975-03-25, Proposal for a Graphic Editor, C. D. Tavares

MTB-176, 1975-03-19, Internal Entry Sequences in pl1_operators_, Richard A. Barnes

MTB-177, 1975-03-25, Multics Change Requests, Betsy Kerr

MTB-178, 1975-03-25, I/O Interfacer Specification Changes, Noel I. Morris

MTB-179, 1975-03-25, Sort/Merge Facility, Joel Berson, C. T. Clingen

MTB-180, 1975-03-31, New Functions and a New Name for the listacl Command, Bill Austell, Jerold C. Whitmore

MTB-181, 1975-03-26, enter_output_request, a Replacement for dprint/dpunch, Gary C. Dixon

MTB-182, 1975-04-07, Multics Change Requests Index, Betsy Kerr

MTB-183, 1975-04-10, Converting from ios_ to iox_, M. Donald MacLaren

MTB-184, 1975-04-19, Resource Control Package, Bill Silver

MTB-185, 1975-04-23, Handling System Conditions, Steven H. Webber

MTB-186, 1975-04-29, Proposed Redefinition of the Copy Switch, Steven H. Webber

MTB-187, 1975-04-23, Changes to Object Segment Format, Melanie Weaver

MTB-188, 1975-04-22, Location of Module Descriptions in the Various MPM Volumes, John W. Gintell

MTB-189, 1975-03-18, Initial Measurements of Cache Speed, J. H. Saltzer

MTB-190, 1975-04-28, Multics Change Requests, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-191, 1975-04-28, Multics Change Requests, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-192, 1975-04-08, Proposed User Interface for FAST, Susan Barr

MTB-193, 1975-05-19, Priority Scheduler, Robert E. Mullen, Thomas A. Casey

MTB-194, 1975-05-08, A Random Word Generator for Multics, Paul A. Green

MTB-195, 1975-05-08, Technical Paper Describing MCS, Warren Johnson, John W. Gintell

MTB-196, 1975-05-13, Multics Change Requests, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-197, 1975-04-11, GCOS Simulator Restart at the Activity Level, R. H. Morrison, D. A. Kayden

MTB-198-01, 1975-05-22, New Hardcore Primitives, Steven H. Webber

MTB-199, 1975-05-30, Multics Change Requests, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-200, 1975-05-30, Multics Change Requests, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-201, 1975-06-01, New Version of the Help Command, T. H. Van Vleck

MTB-202, 1975-06-04, User Interface for FAST, Susan Barr

MTB-203, 1975-06-26, Attributes of a Good Backup System, David R. Vinograd

MTB-204, 1975-06-17, Escape Conventions for Correspondence Code 2741's, M. J. Grady

MTB-205, 1975-06-23, Multics Change Requests, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-206, 1975-06-18, SAVE and RESTOR for New Storage System, T. H. Van Vleck

MTB-207, 1975-06-27, Proposed Change to the PL/I Argument List, Richard A. Barnes

MTB-208, 1975-06-30, Multics Performance Test Results as of System 25.7, Roger A. Roach

MTB-209, 1975-07-08, Design of tape_in, tape_out Enhancements, Janice B. Phillipps

MTB-210, 1975-07-07, Adding a "Property List" to the Branch, T. H. Van Vleck

MTB-211, 1975-07-24, Multics Change Requests, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-212, 1975-07-24, Multics Change Requests, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-213, 1975-07-24, NSS Disk Definition, Bernard S. Greenberg

MTB-214, 1975-08-01, New Message Facility, Steve Herbst

MTB-215, 1975-07-24, Handling Subroutine Errors, T. H. Van Vleck

MTB-216, 1975-07-15, New calendar_clock active function, Gary C. Dixon

MTB-217, 1975-08-01, Multics Change Requests, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-218, 1975-08-04, Multics Performance Test Results as of System 26.1, Roger A. Roach

MTB-219, 1975-08-08, A New Area Management Mechanism, Steven H. Webber

MTB-220, 1975-10-10, New Storage System: Data Recovery (Part 1 -salvaging), A. Kobziar

MTB-221, 1975-09-03, New Storage System Salvager Implementation, A. Kobziar

MTB-222, 1975-09-08, A file_copy command, Ross Klinger, Gary C. Dixon

MTB-223, 1975-09-15, Multics Performance Test Results as of System 26.4a, Roger A. Roach

MTB-224, 1975-09-26, Multics Change Requests, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-225, 1975-09-26, Multics Change Requests, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-226, 1975-09-29, Multics Change Requests, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-227, 1977-09-29, Documentation for Library Tools, The Library Maintenance PLM, Gary C. Dixon, Peter Kelley

MTB-228, 1975-10-03, Multics Change Requests, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-229, 1975-10-08, Use of Demountable Logical Volumes, T. H. Van Vleck, Bill Silver

MTB-230, 1975-10-15, Multics Change Requests, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-231, 1975-10-22, Proposed vfile_ Extensions for Fortran/Basic I/O, Mike Asherman

MTB-232, 1975-10-27, Extensible Command Language for Use on Multics, Jeff Broughton

MTB-233, 1976-01-28, New Storage System Backup, David R. Vinograd

MTB-234, 1975-11-04, New Strategy for Conversion of Terminal Output, Robert S. Coren

MTB-235, 1975-11-07, Revision of MTB-209: tape_in, tape_out, Janice B. Phillipps

MTB-236, 1975-11-11, An Extension to the Multics Condition Mechanism, Jerry Stern

MTB-237, 1975-12-03, Overview of the New Storage System, André Bensoussan

MTB-238, 1975-11-18, Contents of Initial New Storage System at MIT, T. H. Van Vleck

MTB-239, 1975-11-18, Storage System Error Recovery, T. H. Van Vleck

MTB-240, 1975-11-24, Multics Change Requests, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-241, 1975-11-26, Multics Change Requests, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-242, 1975-11-24, Multics Change Requests, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-243, 1975-12-19, Changes to User Ring Programs for New Storage System, T. H. Van Vleck

MTB-244, 1975-12-12, Multics Change Requests, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-245, 1975-11-03, Multics Performance Test Results as of System 27.1, Roger A. Roach

MTB-246, 1975-12-15, List Command Changes for New Storage System, Thomas A. Casey

MTB-247, 1975-12-25, Answering Service Changes for Auto Call, David M. Jordan

MTB-248, 1976-01-26, FAST - a Multics Oriented Subsystem, Susan Barr

MTB-249, 1976-01-16, Multics Change Requests, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-250, 1975-10-28, Prelinking, Richard Bratt

MTB-251, 1976-01-22, Canonicalization of Terminal Input, Robert S. Coren

MTB-252, 1976-01-20, Multics Performance Test Results as of System 27.6, Roger A. Roach

MTB-253, 1976-02-03, Release 2 of the Multics Sort/Merge, Joel Berson

MTB-254, 1976-01-27, Plans for the Obsolescence, Unwiring, and Eventual Removal of the DST, Noel I. Morris

MTB-255, 1975-11-03, Multics Performance Test Results as of System 27.1, Roger A. Roach

MTB-256, 1976-01-27, Multics Change Requests, Joan Archer Scott

(title page only)

MTB-257, 1976-01-19, Proposed New Form of Link, Steven H. Webber

MTB-258, 1976-02-11, The Implementation of Indexed Files in Multics, M. Donald MacLaren

MTB-259, 1976-02-23, MCS Problems with Input Interruptions, Mike Grady

MTB-260, 1976-02-24, Interim Version of Mount and Demount for Disk Volumes, T. H. Van Vleck, Bill Silver

MTB-261, 1976-02-16, Master Directory Control, Larry Johnson

MTB-262, 1976-02-25, New Strategy for Conversion of Terminal Input, Robert S. Coren

MTB-263, 1976-02-27, Multics Change Requests, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-264, 1976-02-27, Multics Change Requests, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-265, 1976-03-09, Multics HEALS II, Phase 2, R. H. Morrison, A. R. Downing

MTB-266, 1976-03-12, Removing Directory Control from the Security Kernel, André Bensoussan

MTB-267, 1976-03-08, Multics Performance Test Results as of System 28.0, Roger A. Roach

MTB-268, 1976-03-17, Multics Change Requests, Betsy Kerr

MTB-269, 1976-03-30, vfile_ Changes for Release 4.0, M. Asherman

MTB-270, 1976-04-05, MCR's 3/16 - 31/76, Betsy Kerr

MTB-271, 1976-04-15, Implementation of the Multics Data Base Manager, Oris D. Friesen, Roger Lackey, Dick Luebke, Jim Weeldreyer

MTB-272, 1976-04-15, Multics Relational Data Store, Oris D. Friesen, Roger D. Lackey, Dick Luebke, Jim Weeldreyer

MTB-273, 1976-04-15, Multics Integrated Data Store, James Falksen, Oris D. Friesen, Roger D. Lackey, Dick Luebke, Jim Weeldreyer

MTB-274, 1976-04-21, MCR's, Betsy Kerr

MTB-275, 1976-04-30, MCR Index, Betsy Kerr

index of MCRs 1-1814

MTB-276, 1976-05-10, Approved MCR's from April 16 - 30, 1976, Betsy Kerr

MTB-277, 1976-05-13, Multics Change Requests (Phoenix), Joan Archer Scott

MTB-278, 1976-04-30, Multics Performance Test Results as of System 28.3, Grace E. Ackerman-Lewis

MTB-279, 1976-05-18, A Multics Usage and Revenue Report, Jim Homan

MTB-280, 1976-06-01, Approved MCR's from May 1 - 15, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-281, 1976-06-08, Approved MCR's from May 16 - 30, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-282, 1976-03-24, Multics Remote Concentrator, R. J. Adsit

MTB-283, 1976-03-24, Multics Support of IBM Binary Synchronous Communications, R. J. Adsit

MTB-284, 1976-06-23, Approved MCR's, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-285, 1976-06-30, Multics Change Requests, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-286, 1976-07-05, Nulled Addresses, Deciduous Segments, Etc.; A Primer in the Page-and-Segment Newspeak of NSS, Bernard S. Greenberg

MTB-287, 1976-07-07, MCR Index, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-288, 1976-07-09, LRK, a Translator Construction System, James Falksen, Dave Ward

MTB-289, 1976-07-13, Approved MCR's, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-290, 1976-07-16, Increased User Control Over Terminal Behavior, Robert S. Coren

MTB-291, 1976-07-22, Draft Programming and Documentation Guide, Ellie Stone, John W. Gintell, Steven H. Webber

MTB-292, 1976-06-28, A New Pointer Conversion Routine, Gary C. Dixon

MTB-293, 1976-07-30, Improved Directory Hash Table, Susan E. Barr

MTB-294, 1976-07-30, Multics Change Requests, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-295, 1976-08-04, Very Distant Host Protocol for Multics, R. W. Franklin

MTB-296, 1976-07-27, Directory Owners, T. H. Van Vleck

(never implemented)

MTB-297, 1976-08-25, Info Segments, Cec Erickson

MTB-298, 1976-07-16, COBOL - MCS, R. W. Franklin

MTB-299, 1976-08-20, Volume Backup Documentation, David R. Vinograd

MTB-300, 1976-10-15, Documentation Format Changes, Cec Erickson

MTB-301, 1976-08-27, Tape Interface to IOI, Larry Johnson, Ross Klinger, Janice Phillipps, Bill Silver

MTB-302, 1976-09-01, Multics Change Requests, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-303, 1976-09-07, MCR Index, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-304, 1976-09-02, Multics Performance Test Results as of System 28.11c, Grace E. Ackerman-Lewis

MTB-305, 1976-09-07, Multics Change Requests, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-306, 1976-09-15, Multics Change Requests, Joan Archer Scott

(title page only)

MTB-307, 1976-10-15, Indexing Manuals on the Multics System, C. Erickson, J. Falksen

MTB-308, 1976-10-08, Obsolete Include Segments, Peter Kelley, Gary C. Dixon

MTB-309, 1976-10-27, MCR Index, Joan Archer Scott

MTB-310, 1976-11-01, Proposal for Standard Tape-Archival Facility, C. D. Tavares

MTB-311, 1976-10-26, New Data Types within Multics, Steven H. Webber

MTB-312, 1976-11-15, I/O Daemon Usage Statistics, Jerold C. Whitmore

MTB-313, 1976-12-03, Unattended Operation of Multics - Part II, T. H. Van Vleck

MTB-314, 1976-12-07, MSPL PL/I Extension Report, Richard Bratt

MTB-315, 1976-12-10, Multics Word Processing Subsystem, WORDPRO, Bill Silver

MTB-316, 1976-12-15, New File Type Built From Areas, M. Asherman

MTB-317, 1977-01-18, Protected Files, T. H. Van Vleck

(never implemented)

MTB-318, 1977-01-18, New Access Control Rules, T. H. Van Vleck

(never implemented)

MTB-319, 1977-01-04, Extending the Multics Character Set, Paul A. Green

MTB-320, 1977-01-04, Influence of APL on the Multics Character Set, Paul A. Green

MTB-321, 1977-01-18, Report Generator Language, James Falksen

MTB-322, 1977-01-13, Teaching WORDPRO Online, Bill Silver

MTB-323, 1977-01-17, User Notification of Reloaded Segments, David R. Vinograd

MTB-324, 1977-01-19, Proposed exec_com Features, Steve Herbst

MTB-325, 1977-01-27, A New Access Authorization Mechanism, Richard Bratt

MTB-326, 1977-01-26, Batch Processing on Multics, David M. Jordan

MTB-327, 1977-02-10, Directory Checking and Salvaging, Susan Barr

MTB-328, 1977-02-23, Logical Inquiry and Update System (LINUS), J. A. Weeldreyer

MTB-329, 1977-03-21, A New Proposal for Accessing Large Files, André Bensoussan

MTB-330, 1977-03-02, Run Units, Steven H. Webber, Melanie Weaver

MTB-331, 1977-03-17, Changes and Additions to help, C. D. Erickson

MTB-332, 1977-03-22, Multics Terminal Types, Robert S. Coren, Jerry Stern

MTB-333, 1977-03-22, Multics Transaction Processing, T. H. Van Vleck

MTB-334, 1977-04-06, Current Editor Problems, Richard J. C. Kissel

MTB-335, 1977-04-11, System Error Message Documentation, T. H. Van Vleck

MTB-336, 1977-04-13, Command Search Facility, Bill Silver

MTB-337, 1977-05-09, New runoff Implementation, Ed Wallman

MTB-338, 1977-04-25, Multics Courses to be Taught by Marketing Education, Gary C. Dixon

MTB-339, 1977-05-19, A New Standard Editor, Richard J. C. Kissel

MTB-340, 1977-05-23, WORDPRO Dictionaries, Bill Silver, Jerry Stern

MTB-341, 1977-05-13, COBOL-74 Message Control System (CMCS) for MR6.0, Robert M. May

MTB-342, 1977-06-10, Lister, a WORDPRO Tool for List Processing, Paul A. Green, Bill Silver

MTB-343, 1977-06-17, Speedtype, Richard J. C. Kissel, Bill Silver

MTB-344, 1977-07-05, Multics Performance Test Results as of System 31.4, George T. Williams

MTB-345, 1977-08-15, Generalized Macro Processor, James Falksen

MTB-346, 1977-10-11, New runoff Revisited, Ed Wallman

MTB-347, 1977-11-11, HLSUA Meeting Report, T. H. Van Vleck

MTB-348, 1977-11-14, Multics Performance Test Results as of System 32.4, George T. Williams

MTB-349, 1977-11-28, Plans for MR7.0 PL/I Compiler, Paul A. Green

MTB-350, 1977-12-01, Proposed Device and Volume Management Facility, C. D. Tavares

MTB-351, 1977-12-07, New Cross-Referencer, C. D. Tavares

MTB-352, 1977-12-15, Resource Reservation Facility, Richard J. C. Kissel

MTB-353, 1978-01-11, Command Search Facility, Paul Smee

MTB-354, 1978-01-11, A Managerial View of the Multics System Development, C. T. Clingen, F. J. Corbató

The present paper is a case history look at the development of the Multics System from a management point of view.

MTB-355, 1978-01-13, Generation Data Sets on Multics, Gary C. Dixon

MTB-356, 1978-01-13, A Tool for Converting Files Created by IBM PL/I F Compiler to Multics Format, Gary C. Dixon

MTB-357, 1978-08-02, Isolated Online Testing of Multics Processors, James A. Bush

MTB-358, 1978-03-01, RCP Resource Management Databases, C. D. Tavares

MTB-359, 1978-05-05, Enhancements to the Multics Data Base Manager, J. A. Weeldreyer

MTB-360, 1978-05-05, The Multics Data Base Manager (MDBM) Security, J. C. C. Jagernauth

MTB-361, 1978-04-06, MDBM Recovery and Concurrency Control, Oris D. Friesen

MTB-362, 1978-02-29, Variables in exec_com, Steve Herbst

MTB-363, 1978-03-14, Duplicate Disk Volumes, Bernard S. Greenberg

MTB-364, 1978-03-08, Improvements to Control of Absentee Jobs, Thomas A. Casey

MTB-365, 1978-03-17, Resource Reservation for Release 6.5, Richard J. C. Kissel

MTB-366, 1978-03-21, IO Daemon Changes for MR7.0, Jerold C. Whitmore

MTB-367, 1978-03-29, High-speed Terminal Input, Robert S. Coren

MTB-368, 1978-05-31, The Editor, Gabriel D. Chang

MTB-369, 1978-05-18, Multics Data Base Consistency, Michael Asherman

MTB-370, 1978-05-01, Transaction Processing Extensions, Michael Asherman

MTB-371, 1978-07-31, Goals and Policies of a New Editor, Gary C. Dixon

MTB-372, 1978-05-01, Changes to abbrev, Steve Herbst, Thomas A. Casey

MTB-373, 1978-04-18, Real-time Editing on Multics, Bernard S. Greenberg

MTB-374, 1978-05-04, Copying and Moving Directories, Lindsey Spratt

MTB-376, 1978-05-31, Multics Performance Test Results as of System 33.7, George T. Williams

MTB-377, 1978-06-02, The Multics System Programming Process, T. H. Van Vleck, C. T. Clingen

Features of the Multics system programming process lead to high programmer productivity with high software reliability. Other workers' predictions of increasing difficulty of system maintenance with time have not been observed; reasons for this are investigated.

MTB-378, 1978-06-01, Document Subsystem/LSS, Jim Falksen, P. L. Lyon

MTB-379, 1978-06-12, Gateway Processor, R. W. Franklin, E. Perry

MTB-380, 1978-06-21, Auditing I/O, Lindsey Spratt

MTB-381, 1978-07-28, Multics Relational Database Restructuring, Roger D. Lackey

MTB-382, 1978-06-29, Support of Multiplexed Communications Channels, Jerry Stern

MTB-383, 1978-07-07, Revised Tape Interface to IOI, Richard J. C. Kissel

MTB-384, 1978-07-25, Installing read_mail and send_mail, Steve Herbst, Gary M. Palter, W. Olin Sibert

MTB-385, 1978-07-27, PPS Support on Multics, Michael R. Jordan

MTB-386, 1978-08-02, Installation of Multics Documentation Macros, C. D. Erickson, S. G. Bender

MTB-387, 1978-08-02, Compose Device Tables, James Falksen

MTB-388, 1978-08-05, Multicolumn Output in compose, Ed Wallman

MTB-389, 1978-08-05, A compose Feature to Print Only Modified Pages, Ed Wallman

MTB-390, 1978-08-07, Embedded Control Feature for compose, Ed Wallman

MTB-391, 1978-08-03, Fortran Test Library, Kay Carlyle

MTB-392, 1978-09-13, Version 2 exec_com, Steve Herbst

MTB-393, 1978-09-20, GTSS MTB 393, Bob May

MTB-394, 1978-09-25, A Utility to Restore GCOS Files to the Multics Storage System, Roy Planalp, Bob May

MTB-395, 1978-10-05, COBOL Source Text Manipulation, F. C. Helwig

MTB-396, 1978-10-19, Version 2 exec_com if-then-else-fi, J. Falksen

MTB-397, 1978-08-08, Formatted Text Tables (Tabular Text) in compose, Ed Wallman

MTB-398, 1978-12-05, New System Firmware Tape Support for MR7.0, James A. Bush

MTB-399, 1979-01-02, Multics MR6.5A - DN6678 System Test Results, J. R. Ohlin, J. P. Brown

MTB-400, 1978-12-07, The Multics Data Dictionary, Leroy M. Brown

MTB-401, 1978-09-05, Processing of Trouble Reports, Gary C. Dixon

MTB-402, 1978-12-21, Transaction Processing, First Release, Melanie Weaver

MTB-403, 1978-12-20, Extended Data Submodel Capabilities, Tommy James Ratliff

MTB-404-02, 1979-10-02, Multics Communication System Memory Configurator, Art Beattie

MTB-405, 1979-01-16, New query_ Subroutine, and a Proposed Set of Argument Validation Active Functions, Gary C. Dixon

MTB-406, 1979-01-24, Default start_up exec_coms, Benson I. Margulies

MTB-407, 1979-02-19, M264 MOS Memory Board/edit_mos_rscr Test, J. R. Ohlin

MTB-408, 1979-02-21, Metering Results for 1978 - MSS 33.1/33.18, George T. Williams

MTB-409, 1979-03-04, New MRDS Display Tool, Art Beattie

MTB-410, 1979-03-30, The Cost of Call-Push-Return, Richard A. Barnes

MTB-411, 1979-04-03, Son of Authentication vs. Resource Management, C. D. Tavares

MTB-412, 1979-04-02, Multics System Library Statistics, Frank W. Martinson

MTB-413, 1979-05-01, Improvements to FNP Input Handling, Larry Johnson

MTB-414, 1979-05-08, ACU General Information, J. Brown

MTB-415, 1979-05-14, New Profile Command, David Spector

MTB-416, 1979-05-14, New Program Coordination Facility, David Spector

MTB-417, 1979-06-06, The Future of Probe, Jim Davis

MTB-418, 1979-07-11, The Echo Negotiation Papers, Bernard S. Greenberg

MTB-419, 1979-07-16, Terminal Features Memo, Bernard S. Greenberg

MTB-420, 1979-06-29, Adding a "Property List" to the Branch, T. H. Van Vleck

MTB-421, 1979-07-11, Improvements to IPC, Eleanor Donner

MTB-422, 1979-06-26, Pseudo-terminal Support for Multics, Charles Hornig

MTB-423, 1979-08-17, Fortran Register Optimizer, Richard A. Barnes

MTB-424, 1979-08-28, Multics on ADP - Software Release 10.3 EPS-1, Steven H. Webber

MTB-425, 1979-08-28, General User Interface to Multics File Transfer Facilities, Richard J. C. Kissel

MTB-426, 1979-09-19, A Multics Macro Processor, Marshall Presser

MTB-427, 1979-10-10, Multics MR8.0--copy_dump_tape/verify_tape_copy, A. R. Downing

MTB-429, 1979-11-16, New Command, Subroutine for Formatting Documents, Paul W. Benjamin

MTB-430, 1979-11-29, Compose Device Table Compiler (compdv), James A. Falksen, Ed Wallman

MTB-431, 1979-12-03, Changes to Design of MRDS Security, C. D. Tavares

MTB-432, 1979-12-27, PL/I Macro Language Facilities, Marshall Presser

MTB-433, 1979-12-27, Recent Improvements to PL/I, Paul A. Green

MTB-434, 1980-01-23, New Call/Push/Return Strategy, Melanie Weaver, Steven H. Webber

MTB-435, 1980-01-17, Medical Records System (MRS), Jim Meyerson

MTB-436, 1980-02-22, Multiline Headers, Ed Wallman

MTB-437, 1980-02-06, Automatic Formatting of PL/I Programs, Monte Davidoff

MTB-438, 1980-02-11, The LINUS Test Facility, J. R. Ohlin

MTB-439, 1980-03-03, Multics Emacs - an Experiment in Computer Interaction, Bernard S. Greenberg

MTB-440, 1979-12-12, MR8.0 MCS Testing, James P. Brown

MTB-441, 1980-03-11, Alternate New Call/Push/Return Strategy, Melanie Weaver, Richard A. Barnes

MTB-442, 1980-03-14, Compose Output File Postprocessor (process_compout), James A. Falksen, Ed Wallman

MTB-443, 1980-03-20, Prose and CONS (Multics Emacs: a Commercial Text-processing System in LISP), Bernard S. Greenberg

MTB-446, 1980-04-14, Menu Management Software, Steven H. Webber

MTB-447, 1980-04-10, Packaging of Separately Priced Software, Frank W. Martinson

MTB-448, 1980-05-13, Introduction of Comments to listin Segments, Paul W. Benjamin

MTB-449, 1980-05-14, Answering Service Performance Study, Thomas A. Casey, Robert E. Mullen

MTB-450, 1980-06-30, A Performance Comparison Between MR6.5 and MR8.0 MRDS, Noah S. Davids

MTB-451-01, 1980-09-16, Plans for Online Documentation for Manuals for MR9.0, B. Kerr, Jim Siwila

MTB-452, 1980-08-01, Hardcore Support for the DPSE Hardware, James A. Bush

MTB-453-02, 1980-08-01, A Tool for Standard Error List Maintenance, Greg Texada

MTB-454, 1980-09-01, HASP Workstation Simulator, Gary M. Palter

MTB-455, 1980-10-18, Desupporting the Bulk Store (or Whither Page Multi-Level?), W. Olin Sibert

MTB-457, 1980-10-02, Communications Metering, Robert S. Coren

MTB-458, 1980-10-01, Towards a Windowed Video System, Bernard S. Greenberg, Jim Davis

MTB-459-01, 1981-01-20, New Installation Tools, Chris Jones

MTB-460, 1980-10-01, A Basic Video-Terminal Editor for Menu Applications, Suzanne L. Krupp

MTB-461, 1980-10-02, A Window Video System Implementation, Bernard S. Greenberg, Jim Davis

MTB-462-01, 1981-01-27, Interim Window System for the Menu Manager - Revised, Jim Davis

MTB-464, 1980-10-23, New Value Interfaces, Steve Herbst

MTB-465, 1980-11-24, Subroutines and Tools for Manipulating Disk Partitions, W. Olin Sibert

MTB-466, 1980-11-05, History and Evolution of MRDS, Roger D. Lackey

MTB-467, 1980-10-31, A Fully Controllable start_up.ec, Benson I. Margulies

MTB-468, 1980-10-31, Towards Unified Process Management, Benson I. Margulies

MTB-469-01, 1980-11-04, Multiple Instruction Sets (Decors) for the ALM Assembler, Eric Bush

MTB-470, 1980-07-16, Default Search List for Compose, Ed Wallman

MTB-472, 1980-11-07, PFS Requirement to Support IDS2 Under GCOS Simulator, Dave Ward

MTB-473, 1980-11-11, Message Coordinator Considerations Part 0: New Considerations for the Message Coordinator, Benson I. Margulies

MTB-474, 1980-12-01, Multics Initialization Redesigned: A Replacement for BOS, W. Olin Sibert

MTB-475-01, 1980-11-12, A tr_query Interface for the TR System, Bonnie Braun

MTB-476, 1980-11-14, Menu Software in MR9, James R. Davis

MTB-478-01, 1981-02-04, Multics Software Protection, Joe M. Stansbury

MTB-479, 1980-12-29, MR9.0 Executive Mail, Suzanne L. Krupp

MTB-480, 1980-12-02, Include File for CONFIG Cards, W. Olin Sibert

MTB-481, 1980-12-17, A Framework of Goals Toward More Complete Data Management Capabilities on Multics, Matt C. Pierret

MTB-482, 1980-12-16, Communications Metering Interfaces, Robert S. Coren

MTB-483, 1980-12-16, Multics Data Management: Problem Statement, Melanie Weaver, André Bensoussan

MTB-484, 1981-01-08, Redoing IOM Management, Charles Hornig

MTB-485, 1981-01-02, Unified Process Management .5: Cleaning Up Process Initialization, Benson I. Margulies

MTB-486, 1980-12-31, Operator Console Support Changes for MR9.0, Michael R. Jordan, Sherm D. Sprague

MTB-487, 1981-03-26, Data Management: Medium Range Goals, André Bensoussan

MTB-488, 1981-01-20, CPU Time Accounting, John J. Bongiovanni

MTB-489, 1981-01-20, Measuring Response Time on Multics, John J. Bongiovanni

MTB-490, 1981-01-11, Results of Emacs Performance Measurements, Robert E. Mullen, Greg A. Texada

MTB-491, 1981-01-20, Separately Pricing DPS8 Hardcore, James A. Bush

MTB-492, 1981-01-08, Software Technical Identifier, Richard Holmstedt

MTB-493, 1981-03-02, Whither Menus, James R. Davis

MTB-494-01, 1981-01-23, Menu Presentation Commands, James R. Davis

MTB-496, 1981-04-02, Changes in the MRDS Submodel Interface, Noah S. Davids

MTB-497, 1981-02-01, Constructing Programs for Multiple System Types, W. Olin Sibert

MTB-498, 1981-02-05, Implementation of Security Concepts in a Large-Scale System, T. H. Van Vleck, C. T. Clingen

MTB-499, 1981-03-02, Further Work for Multics Video Support, James R. Davis

MTB-500, 1981-04-30, Version 3 PL/I, Eric Bush, Peter Krupp

MTB-501, 1981-03-17, The New MRDS Security Approach, Jim Gray

MTB-502, 1981-03-17, Effects of Security on the MRDS Interface, Jim Gray

MTB-503, 1981-03-31, Changes to the MRDS Command Interface, Jim Gray

MTB-504, 1981-03-24, Changes to the MRDS dsl_ Subroutine Interface, Jim Gray

MTB-505, 1981-03-26, Changes to the MRDS dmd_ Subroutine Interface, Jim Gray

MTB-506, 1981-04-02, Extensions to the create_mrds_dsm and display_mrds_dsm Commands for MRDS Security, Noah S. Davids

MTB-507, 1981-03-19, Multics COLTS MTB, Rick Fakoury

MTB-508, 1981-05-14, Data Management: An Architectural Overview, Lindsey L. Spratt

MTB-509, 1981-05-14, Data Management: External Access Layer - Overview, Lindsey Leroy Spratt

MTB-510, 1981-05-15, Data Management: Container Access Layer - Overview, Lindsey Spratt, Matthew Pierret

MTB-511, 1981-05-14, Data Management: Page Access Layer Overview, John J. Bongiovanni

MTB-512, 1981-05-15, Data Management: Transaction Management Overview, Matthew Pierret

MTB-513, 1981-05-18, Data Management: Recovery Management - Overview, André Bensoussan

MTB-514, 1981-05-18, Data Management: Concurrency Management - Overview, André Bensoussan

MTB-515, 1981-02-11, New Database Architecture: Security, T. H. Van Vleck

MTB-516, 1981-02-11, New Database Architecture: Distributed Databases, T. H. Van Vleck

MTB-517, 1981-04-02, V2 exec_com Extensions, Steve Herbst

MTB-518, 1981-04-21, Database Development Framework, Roger D. Lackey

MTB-519, 1981-04-07, Documenting System Programming Techniques, Gary C. Dixon

MTB-520, 1981-04-15, Whither Docsys?, Paul W. Benjamin

MTB-521, 1981-04-04, The New quota_monitor Command, Richard Holmstedt

MTB-522, 1981-04-10, Hexadecimal Floating Point, T. H. Van Vleck

MTB-523, 1981-05-26, LINUS changes for MR9.0, Rickie E. Brinegar

MTB-524, 1981-06-05, MR9.0 Executive Mail, Suzanne L. Krupp

MTB-525, 1981-06-09, Generating Unique Bits for the ADP, W. Olin Sibert

MTB-527, 1981-06-09, Graphics in Compose, Paul W. Benjamin

MTB-528, 1981-06-10, Multics Data Management Plan, André Bensoussan

MTB-531, 1981-08-03, Interface Design of the DSA Session Control Implementation on Multics, Richard J. C. Kissel, Kala Marietta

MTB-533, 1981-07-30, Proposed Message Facility Enhancements, Christopher L. Jones

MTB-534, 1981-09-01, Deferred Trouble Reports, Gary C. Dixon

MTB-535, 1981-09-01, Directions for Multics Graphics, C. D. Tavares

MTB-536, 1981-09-21, Use of Extended Memory for FNP Buffers, Robert S. Coren

MTB-537, 1981-09-24, MR9.0 MRDS Performance Results, Roger D. Lackey

MTB-538, 1981-10-20, Design of a General Interface and Implementation Structure for Use in a Networking Environment, Richard J. C. Kissel

MTB-539, 1981-11-24, Results of the Multics Software Support Study, Gary C. Dixon

MTB-541, 1981-12-07, Toward a Unification of Data Manipulation on Multics, Lindsey Leroy Spratt

MTB-542, 1981-12-03, Measurement of FNP Performance, Robert S. Coren

MTB-543-01, 1982-05-14, MRDS Restructuring for MR10.1, Noah S. Davids, Paul W. Benjamin

MTB-544-01, 1982-03-01, Rewriting the Multics Operators' Handbook, Karen MacKenzie

MTB-545-01, 1984-05-31, Data Management: Relation Manager Functional Specification, Lindsey Spratt, Lee Baldwin

MTB-547-01, 1984-04-18, Data Management: Record Manager Functional Specification, Lindsey Spratt, Matt Pierret

MTB-548, 1982-04-27, Data Management: Record Manager Design, Lindsey Leroy Spratt, Matthew Clement Pierret

MTB-549-01, 1984-04-04, Data Management: Index Manager Functional Specification, Lindsey Leroy Spratt

MTB-550, 1983-01-12, Data Management: Index Manager Design, Lindsey Leroy Spratt

MTB-551-01, 1984-06-04, Data Management: Collection Manager Functional Specification., Matthew Pierret, Lindsey Spratt

MTB-552, 1983-02-24, Data Management: Collection Manager Design., Lindsey L. Spratt, Matthew C. Pierret

MTB-553-01, 1984-07-06, Data Management: File Manager Specifications, André Bensoussan, Jeffrey D. Ives, R. Michael Tague

MTB-554-01, 1984-02-15, Data Management: File Manager Design., Jeffrey D. Ives, Matthew C. Pierret

MTB-555-01, 1984-03-26, Data Management: Transaction Manager Functional Spec, Steve Herbst, Matt Pierret

MTB-556, 1984-09-06, Data Management: Transaction Manager Design, Steve Herbst

MTB-557-01, 1984-04-03, Data Management: Lock Manager Functional Specification, R. Michael Tague

MTB-558, 1984-06-27, Data Management: Lock Management Functional Design, John J. Bongiovanni

MTB-559-01, 1984-05-21, Data Management: Before Journal Manager Specifications, André Bensoussan, R. Michael Tague

MTB-560, 1983-06-20, Data Management: Before Journal Manager Design, André Bensoussan

MTB-561, 1982-02-11, Data Management: After Journal Manager Specifications, Jeffrey D. Ives

MTB-563, 1981-12-03, Data Management: Ordering of Disk I/Os, John J. Bongiovanni

MTB-564, 1983-02-04, Phasing Page Control and Before Journal, André Bensoussan

MTB-565, 1982-01-22, Improvements to the Search Paths, Benson I. Margulies

MTB-566, 1982-02-16, Reliable File Storage: Physical Volume Management. Page Control, and Segment Control, John J. Bongiovanni

MTB-567, 1982-02-03, Data Management: Before Journal Storage Operations, André Bensoussan

MTB-568, 1983-06-23, Data Management: Rollback, André Bensoussan

MTB-570, 1982-03-03, VTOCE Buffer Management, John J. Bongiovanni

MTB-571, 1982-02-05, X.25 Enhancements, Charles Hornig

MTB-572, 1982-02-09, Typeset Guidelines for Multics Documentation, J. Seaman-Clingen, Ed Wallman

MTB-573, 1982-02-17, COBOL Data Types in the Sort-Merge Facility, Frank C. Helwig, Frank C., Jr. Helwig

MTB-574, 1982-03-07, The Forum Interactive Meeting Subsystem, Jay Pattin

MTB-575, 1982-03-17, The Multics Tape Problem, James A. Bush

MTB-576, 1982-03-15, Splitting Up the Commands Manual, Karen MacKenzie

MTB-577, 1982-03-18, Rewriting/Organizing the Multics Administrators' Manuals, Kathleen Vogt Kissel

MTB-579, 1982-03-31, Multics - Level 6 RBF connection via X.25, Suzanne L. Krupp

MTB-580, 1982-04-01, Timers in Ring Zero MCS, Robert S. Coren

MTB-581, 1982-04-20, Ansi77 Fortran Functions Returning Character*(*), Tom Oke, Hal Hoover

MTB-583, 1983-07-05, Large Data Spaces in Fortran, T. Oke, H. Hoover, Melanie Weaver, B. Westcott

MTB-584, 1982-04-23, Multics C&F Maintenance Study, Gary C. Dixon

MTB-585, 1982-08-17, The Multics Inquire System: A User-Accessible, User-Maintained, Personal User Database, Barry Margolin

MTB-586, 1982-06-29, Online Documentation for Multics, Jim Siwila

MTB-587, 1982-07-19, MRDS and DMS, Paul W. Benjamin

MTB-588, 1982-07-12, MRDS and DMS: Conversion Overview, Noah S. Davids, Mike Kubicar

MTB-589, 1982-09-02, MRDS and DMS: vfile_ Relation Manager, Roger D. Lackey

MTB-590, 1982-08-06, MRDS and DMS: Conversion Overview, Noah S. Davids, Mike Kubicar

MTB-592-01, 1983-08-04, Data Management: System Structure and Initialization, John J. Bongiovanni, Lee A. Newcomb

MTB-593, 1982-07-21, An Electronic Filing Cabinet for Multics, Noah S. Davids

MTB-594, 1982-07-30, Restructuring the MPM Manuals, Jim Batts

MTB-596, 1982-08-12, Tasking I, Melanie Weaver, Charles Hornig

MTB-597, 1982-09-03, MR10.1 Multics Mail System Extensions, Gary M. Palter

MTB-598-01, 1982-12-02, Bootload Multics Status and New Initialization PLM material., Benson I. Margulies

MTB-599, 1982-09-08, Dispersal of MPM manual Contents, Jim Garrison

MTB-600, 1982-09-24, The mtape_ I/O module: A New User Interface for Tapes, Jim Bush

MTB-601, 1982-09-28, Data Management: Hardcore Support, John J. Bongiovanni

MTB-602, 1982-10-04, LALR, a Translator Construction System, Pat Prange, Benson I. Margulies

MTB-603, 1983-02-15, Data Management: Crash Recovery, Lee A. Newcomb

MTB-604, 1983-01-27, Data Management: The Daemon Process, Michael A. Pandolf

MTB-605, 1982-12-02, Planned Improvements for IMFT in MR10.2, Robert S. Coren

MTB-606, 1983-01-19, LINUS Report Generation, L. A. Dupuis

MTB-607, 1983-01-26, Problems with MCS, Charles Hornig

MTB-608, 1983-01-25, MR10.2 Multics Mail System Extensions, Gary M. Palter

MTB-609, 1983-01-26, More on improvements to the Multics search facility, Ed Wallman

MTB-610, 1983-01-31, A Multics Tutorial, Jim Siwila

MTB-611, 1983-02-04, Data Management File Commands, André Bensoussan

MTB-612, 1983-03-16, Command Environment Extensions, Gregory A. Baryza

MTB-613, 1983-06-01, Multics Mail System Programmer's Reference Manual, Gary M. Palter

MTB-614-01, 1983-06-29, The Mail Table, Revision 1, Barry Margolin, Gary M. Palter

MTB-615, 1983-03-06, A mechanism for managing extended objects, Jay Pattin

MTB-616, 1983-03-09, Date/time system (1) Issues, James A. Falksen, Gary C. Dixon

MTB-617-03, 1984-07-02, Date/time system (2) Commands and subroutines, James A. Falksen, Gary C. Dixon

MTB-618, 1983-03-14, Date/time system (3) Site tailoring, James A. Falksen, Gary C. Dixon

MTB-619, 1983-03-04, Video System Plans for the Foreseeable Future, William M. York

MTB-620, 1983-03-23, Data Management: Published MTB's, André Bensoussan

MTB-621, 1983-05-11, An Architecture for End User Data Access, Roger D. Lackey, L. A. Dupuis, Ron Harvey, Ron Barstad, Noah S. Davids, Mike Kubicar, David J. Schimke, Craig L. Senft, Paul W. Benjamin

MTB-622, 1983-05-23, Multics Automated Support System, Rich Fawcett

MTB-623, 1983-05-25, A Menu Interface for Multics, Noah S. Davids

MTB-624, 1983-06-23, analyze_multics: A Multics address space translator/analyzer., Bonnie Braun

The contents of this MTB outlines a tool intended to be used for the analysis of a Multics address space. This tool, analyze_multics, is intended to replace ol_dump and ifd.

MTB-625, 1983-05-27, The SSF and Multics, Rich Coppola

MTB-626, 1983-06-07, The config deck editor for Bootload Multics, Keith Loepere

MTB-627, 1983-07-07, Subroutines for Generating Object Segments, Benson I. Margulies

MTB-628, 1983-07-13, This MTB address issues concerning the support of the operators' system interface in a post MR10.1 environment., Edward A. Ranzenbach

A recent RPQ effort has identified a need to review the operator's console device control module for the purposes of providing a means of changing bootload consoles without interrupting user service. During this review several problems were discovered with the device control module, ocdcm_, the most serious causing the processor handling an interrupt from the console to loop, masked, in ring zero until the operation completes. If this operation is a read, the termination status being looped on can take as long as thirty seconds to arrive. The processor, and process, servicing this interrupt are effectively unresponsive for this period. Due to problems such as this it was decided that a complete redesign of ocdcm_ was needed.

MTB-629, 1983-07-21, A new argument processing technique for commands and requests., Lindsey Leroy Spratt

MTB-630, 1983-07-28, Dipper T&D on Multics, Rick Fakoury

MTB-631, 1983-08-23, Bootload Multics Task List, Keith Loepere, Thomas A. Casey

MTB-632, 1983-09-16, Pascal Symbol Tables, Melanie Weaver, Jean-Michel Athane

MTB-634, 1983-10-11, Data Management: System Shutdown, Lee A. Newcomb

MTB-635, 1983-10-19, Management of Large Physical Disk Drives - an Overview, Benson I. Margulies

MTB-636, 1983-11-09, Executive Service, User Interface, Noah S. Davids

MTB-637, 1983-12-20, Executive Service, High Level Design, Noah S. Davids

MTB-639, 1983-11-15, Data Management: Error Handling, Matthew C. Pierret

MTB-640, 1983-11-28, Reconfiguration Extended, Chris Jones

MTB-641, 1983-12-20, The View Manager Facility, Paul W. Benjamin, Ron Harvey, L. A. Dupuis

MTB-642, 1983-12-21, The View Manager Facility: View Manager Subroutine Interface, Roger Lackey, Ron Harvey

MTB-643, 1983-12-20, The View Manager Facility: View Master Subsystem, L. A. Dupuis

MTB-644, 1983-12-20, The View Manager Facility: SQL Parser, Ron Barstad

MTB-645, 1983-12-20, The View Manager Facility: Data Dictionary Interface, Mike Kubicar

MTB-646, 1983-12-19, Command Argument Processing (CAP): An Overview, Gary C. Dixon

MTB-647, 1984-01-23, Multics C Compiler Specification, Gregory A. Baryza

MTB-648, 1984-02-21, Improvements to Subsystem Metering, Gary M. Palter

MTB-649, 1984-02-17, A B2 Security Evaluation for Multics, Benson I. Margulies

After many years of apparent disinterest in computer security, the DoD has established a Computer Security Center. This Center has published a "Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria," and is in the process of evaluating several computer systems. The Criteria set out requirements for functionality, documentation, and configuration management for systems at various levels of security or trust. This MTB briefly describes the evaluation process, and goes on to discuss the results to date of the Multics evaluation, including system changes necessary to reach the B2 level of the Criteria.

MTB-650, 1984-02-28, Proposal to Reorganize the MCR Board, Paul W. Benjamin, Chris Jones, Mike Kubicar, Matt Pierret

MTB-651, 1984-03-15, Bootload Multics Phase 1, Keith Loepere

MTB-652, 1984-03-15, New Initialization SDN, Keith Loepere

MTB-653, 1984-04-02, Video Futures: Near Term Plans For The Multics Video System, Jon A. Rochlis

MTB-654, 1984-04-23, Extensions to menu_, Noah S. Davids

MTB-655, 1984-05-07, Multics Software Development Guide: An Outline, Gary C. Dixon

MTB-656-01, 1984-08-08, Reorganizing/Rewriting Administration and Maintenance Documentation, Karen MacKenzie

MTB-657, 1984-05-11, Limited Subsystems for the Hierarchy and Volume Backup Dumpers, Benson I. Margulies

MTB-658, 1984-06-04, Executive Mail, MR11 Extensions, David J. Schimke

MTB-659-01, 1984-07-10, message facility, Jim Lippard

MTB-660-01, 1984-08-20, New Pattern-Matching Routines Via Regular Expressions, Gregory A. Baryza

MTB-661-03, 1986-01-25, Executive Forum User Interface, Lynda J. Adams

MTB-662, 1984-07-02, A B2 Security Evaluation for Multics - Revised, Maria M. Pozzo, Benson I. Margulies

This documents the current status of the Multics Security Evaluation.

MTB-663-03, 1986-03-12, Management of the on-line communication between the Maintenance Channel Adapter (MCA), located within the Integrated Multiplexer Unit (IMU), and Multics., Rich Fawcett, Paul Farley

This MTB describes the plans for attaching and controlling communication between a Multics process and an MCA for performing various functions. These will include reading the current IMU configuration state, reading selected information from one of the two internal IMU diskette devices and performing Integrated Peripheral Controller (IPC) functions (once the IPC has also been attached).

All attachments will be performed by calls through the mca_ gate in ring_1, which will then call rcp_ to perform the actual attachment. No attachment or I/O to MCAs or IPCs will be allowed outside of ring_1. This will force all calls to ioi_ for the I/O operations to be executed from the ring_1 mca programs.

This interface will allow simple and secure access to information contained in the IMU.

This is the third revision of MTB663. This revision defines the security auditing trail, and now reflects the current implementation of the interface. It carries change bars as related to revision 02.

MTB-664, 1984-07-02, Design Documentation for the TCB, Maria M. Pozzo

The Criteria requires design documentation that describes how the TCB enforces the security policy of the system, as described in the DTLS. It further requires a complete and accurate description of the interface between the TCB modules and the TCB protection mechanisms. This document identifies an interim plan towards satisfying this requirement. It further describes what needs to be done to completely fulfill the requirements set out by the Criteria. This MTB, in addition to informing the Multics community of its contents, serves as formal notification to the DOD Security Evaluation Team, informing them of Honeywell's plans for both an interim and final plan for Multics design documentation.

MTB-665, 1984-05-18, Implement a deadproc request for analyze_multics, Bonnie Braun

MTB-666, 1984-07-04, New Logging Facilities, W. Olin Sibert

MTB-667, 1984-07-06, A Partial Solution to Limitations on Quota, Benson I. Margulies

MTB-668, 1984-07-18, The Report Writer Subroutine Interface, report_writer_, L. A. Dupuis

MTB-669, 1984-07-23, Summary of Discussion on MTB-656 (Reorganizing/Rewriting Administration and Maintenance Documentation), Karen MacKenzie

MTB-670-01, 1984-08-28, Moving the PNT to Ring 1, Eric J. Swenson, Benson I. Margulies

MTB-671-01, 1984-09-21, A Method to Extend the Multics File System, Michael A. Pandolf

MTB-672, 1984-08-27, Re-write of any_to_any_, Tom Oke

MTB-673, 1984-08-16, Adaptive Disk Optimization, Tom Oke

MTB-674, 1984-08-09, Removing Volume Registration from Operator Control, Ed Sharpe

MTB-675-01, 1984-10-16, A File Transfer System for the XMODEM and IBM PC-to-PC, Maureen Mallmes

MTB-676-01, 1984-09-14, Kermit File Transfer Protocol, Maureen Mallmes

MTB-677, 1984-09-10, The Report Writer Subroutine Interface Design Issues, L. A. Dupuis

MTB-679, 1984-10-23, Security Audit Trails, Benson I. Margulies

MTB-680, 1984-11-12, Identification and Authentication of Operators, Benson I. Margulies

MTB-681-01, 1984-11-21, Restructuring Directory Control, Keith Loepere

MTB-682-01, 1985-04-09, Modifications to RCP access controls - Revision 1, Maria M. Pozzo

MTB-683, 1984-10-09, Fortran Typeless Functions Specification., Michael H. Mabey

MTB-684, 1984-10-09, Answering Service Bump Request, R. Michael Tague

MTB-685-01, 1984-11-12, Version 5 Message Segments, Benson I. Margulies

MTB-686, 1984-10-25, Improving the Security of SAC and the Admin Password, Benson I. Margulies

MTB-687, 1984-10-19, Fortran Hexadecimal Floating Point Support., Hal Hoover

MTB-688-03, 1985-04-26, Multics C Implementation Specification, Douglas Howe

MTB-689-03, 1986-08-20, The C Runtime System on Multics, Douglas Howe

This MTB describes the C runtime library as it will be implemented on Multics. It is expected to be a complete list of the runtime library available from System V Release 2.0(1)

Changes within this MTB will be marked with change bars.

Revision 3: Changes include a complete list of the runtime routines to be available with the C compiler.

MTB-691-02, 1985-11-27, Multics C Execution Environment Specification, Douglas Howe

MTB-692, 1984-11-07, A New Ring-0 Auditing Mechanism, Ed Sharpe

MTB-693, 1984-11-11, Improving the Security of Multics IPC, Eric J. Swenson

MTB-694, 1984-11-12, ssu_ System Control and iox_ Message Coordinator, Benson I. Margulies

MTB-695, 1984-11-12, Rewrite the System Math Routines, Betty Wong

MTB-696, 1984-12-07, Covert Channel Analysis, Keith Loepere

MTB-697-01, 1985-01-08, Improving the security of Message Coordinator input, Benson I. Margulies

MTB-698, 1985-01-09, B2 Answering Service Auditing Changes, Eric J. Swenson

MTB-699, 1985-01-15, Messages from privileged processes to user processes, Benson I. Margulies

MTB-700-01, 1985-01-22, Allowing system privilege setting in ring 1, Benson I. Margulies

MTB-701-01, 1986-01-28, Executive Mail, MR12 Extensions, J. K. Blair

MTB-703, 1985-02-28, HASP Workstation Console Support, Jim Homan, W. Olin Sibert

MTB-706, 1985-04-04, Avoiding Ring 0 Audit of Ring 1 TCB file system operations, Benson I. Margulies

MTB-708, 1985-05-23, Local Echo Negotiation, Barry Margolin

MTB-709, 1985-05-07, The mrds_call command as an active function, Jean Blair

MTB-710, 1985-05-23, Multi System and Language Support, Betty Wong

MTB-711-03, 1986-04-04, Object Multi-Segment Files, Dean Elhard

This MTB addresses the problem of creating packages which are too large to fit into a single object segment but which have large amounts of call traffic between code modules. It proposes a method of creating a multi-segment executable object (Object MSF) which can be treated as a single entity for the purposes of execution, and file system operations. Object MSFs would resolve inter-component links without use of the dynamic linker, and would allow the elimination of external definitions and entrypoints which should remain internal interfaces.

Revision 1: Modified external entry mechanism to enter via component 0 transfer vector; introduced deferred initialization type.

Revision 2: Modified external entry mechanism to have the dynamic linker indirect through partially snapped links to get actual target of definition to remedy problems with non-entry definitions.

Revision 3: Modified to change names and address issues raised by MCRB.

MTB-712, 1985-05-15, Policy and Procedures for Software Integration., Richard A. Holmstedt, Gary Johnson, F. W. Martinson, F. W. Martinson

MTB-713, 1985-05-17, MR11 Configuration Management, Benson I. Margulies

MTB-714, 1985-06-22, A Remote Window System Protocol for Multics, Jon Rochlis

MTB-715, 1985-05-28, MRDS Restructuring Subsystem Changes, Charles Spitzer, Thanh Nguyen

MTB-716-02, 1986-08-12, Multics Configuration Management: Tracking Software, Lynda J. Adams

Configuration Management is the management of changes to systems. MTB-713, "MR11 Configuration Management", describes our current procedures for proposing, reviewing, implementing, installing and tracking software changes. MTB-712, "Policy and Procedures for Software Integration", describes procedures for software installation in more detail.

In reviewing these procedures, the Multics B2 Evaluation Team found several shortcomings. This MTB briefly describes the shortcomings, and proposes minor changes to the Multics configuration management process to correct them.

Revision 1 includes enhancements to the history_comment command writeup, marked with change bars.

Revision 2 includes some significant changes to the history_comment command control arguments. The entire command is marked with change bars.

MTB-717, 1985-08-01, MRDS Model Manager, Charles Spitzer

MTB-718, 1986-06-06, Multics Linkage Editor Specification, Dean Elhard

This MTB will supply the specifications for the new Multics Link Editor mentioned in MTB 688 and MTB 691.

Revision 1: Revised ocu_ subroutine interface, and linkage editor command interface.

Revision 2: Revides to change terminology regarding object multisegment files.

MTB-719, 1985-08-01, MRDS Rework/Cleanup, L. A. Dupuis

MTB-724, 1985-08-01, MRDS scope mechanism, Jim Lippard

MTB-729, 1985-08-28, BFP and HFP Basic Mathematical Functions, Hal Hoover, L. A. Dupuis

MTB-730, 1985-10-21, Data Management: Consistent File Save and Restore, Lee A. Newcomb

MTB-731-01, 1986-03-25, FIPS Disk Support, Rich Fawcett

This MTB describes the plans for supporting the FIPS disk drives on the Multics File System. The FIPS disk are MSU3380 and MSU3390, these are IBM devices 3380D and 3380E respectively. This plan will allow support of any large disk with the correct format and PSIA hardware interface. The two problems addressed are: disk size too large for volume map, and the performance of the hardware read-alter-rewrite (RAR). These problems are solved by dividing the large disk into "subvolumes" and eliminating 64 word IO to these drives.

This is the first revision, and reflects the results of the proto-type code testing. Also minor problems were found and corrected. This revision has change bars to indicate the changes from the original MTB.

MTB-732-03, 1986-06-24, Changes Required to Hardcore by C, Douglas Howe

This MTB describes the changes to hardcore required by C to install heap variables.

Revision 1: Changes made in this revision correct the initialization of the stack header and are marked with change bars.

Revision 2: The changes made reflect the comments made on MCR 7395 and MCR 7396. The changes also include the description of list_heap_variables.

Revision 3: The changes made for this revision reflect amendments to MCR 7426 and MCR 7421.

MTB-733-03, 1986-05-16, Changes Required to the Command Processor by C, Douglas Howe

This MTB describes the changes to the command_processor_ and to cu_ required by C in order to obtain the command name for Argv[0].

Revision 3 The changes made reflect the amendments to MCR 7375 (P612).

MTB-734-02, 1986-11-06, The Implementation of Features to Allow ALM to Support C, Rick Gray

This MTB describes features to be added to ALM to allow it to be used as an intermediary by various compilers. These features are:

  • The addition of a subroutine interface to ALM that will allow language translators to invoke the assembler directly.
  • The ability to specify initialization information for external variables.
  • Support for a new class of type 5 links called *heap links.
  • The ability to generate text section entry sequences that are usable by probe.

MTB-735, 1986-04-24, The Implications of Archive Component Support for Multics Languages, Rick Gray

This MTB proposes the addition of support to languages for accessing sources that are components of archives. The MTB is intended for language and related utility developers/maintainers. The MTB focusses on (a) adding support for explicit archive component pathnames, (b) defining and adding support for a new implicit archive component pathname convention, and (c) discussing the implications/effects of (a) and (b) on language use of source segments.

MTB-736, 1986-07-08, Additional Subroutine Documentation, Kevin P. Fleming

This MTB contains documentation for various external subroutine interfaces that are not currently documented in AG93-05. An MCR will follow to include this documentation in the MR 12.0 release of AG93.

MTB-737, 1986-02-03, Dipper Documentation, Rich Fawcett

MTB-738-03, 1986-11-13, Changes Required to list_init_, Douglas Howe

This MTB describes the changes required to list_init_ to allow external pointers to be initialized to nonconstant values.

MTB-739, 1986-02-27, System's Development and Support Facilities, Lee A. Newcomb

MTB-740, 1986-04-04, Multics Online Work Station Environment (MOWSE) Overview, Jim Gee, Michael Flegel

This MTB presents the functional specifications of a Multics Online Work Station Environment (MOWSE) package for Multics and IBM-PC compatibles running MS-DOS.

MTB-741-04, 1986-11-05, MOWSE - Design Commands and Subroutines, Michael Flegel

This document provides an overview of the MOWSE environment and the user interface.

MTB-742-02, 1986-11-11, MOWSE - Background File Transfer (BFT) Facility, Charles Rohs, Derek Eichele

This document provides an overview of the Background File Transfer facility and user interface, which uses the Multics Online Work Station Environment (MOWSE).

MTB-743, 1986-04-09, MOWSE - Personal Computer File Backup (PCFB) Facility, Edward C. Brunelle, L. A. Dupuis, Ron Barstad, Ed Wallman

This MTB describes a file backup and restore facility for a Personal Computer (PC) using a Multics system as the file storage medium. This facility uses the Multics Online Work Station Environment (MOWSE).

MTB-744-01, 1986-11-15, MOWSE - Workstation Terminal Manager, Edward C. Brunelle

This MTB presents an overview of the features and tentative design of the keyboard/screen manager for use on a MOWSE work- station.

MTB-745-01, 1986-06-05, Add Save/Restore to the BCE command set., Paul Farley

This MTB describes the Bootload Multics (BCE) version of the physical volume save/restore. This is part of the continuing enhancement of the BCE command set to pickup those BOS functions that are still required now that BOS is being phased out.

This MTB only deals with saving/restoring to/from tape. Disk to disk copying is done by using the BCE copy_disk command, written by Keith Loepere and not covered by this MTB.

This is the first revision of MTB745. It reflects changes made thus far in the design. Also contained in this version is a documentation appendix with several sub-sections, containing the subsystem info segments and the others describing the documentation changes required to the manuals.

MTB-746-02, 1986-10-01, Network accounting software, Edward C. Brunelle

This MTB describes new software and Answering Service changes to support charging processes for DSA usage. Central to these changes is a new subroutine network_accounting_ and a table >sc1>network_accounting_table, managed via vfile_, that records current process use of DSA channels.

This revision adds another entry to the Answering Service accounting entrypoints which will be used to initialize network accounting on system bootload.

MTB-747-03, 1986-06-23, New warn and inactivity software, Steve Herbst

Interference between the current warn facility (blast messages) and the video system makes it necessary to redesign the mechanism used by the Answering Service "blast" interface. This change, in turn, makes it also necessary to redesign the bump-for-inactivity feature that logs users out for inactivity.

MTB-748, 1986-04-02, Overview of the New Multics Networking Architecture, anonymous

An overview of the new Multics Networking Architecture (MNA) is presented. This includes an overview of the changes to be made for the user interface, changes to the administrative system, and internal Multics support changes. This is meant to be an introduction to the networking architecture and its terminology and serves as a prerequisite for understanding future MTBs.

MTB-749, 1986-04-02, A New IPC Channel Type: The Async Call Channel, anonymous

A new type of IPC event channel is described, the asynchronous event call channel. The handlers for these new channels can be invoked whether or not the owning process is blocked. A new interface is also described for creating event channels.

MTB-750, 1986-06-25, MC Changes for DSA, Maggie Sharpe, Stan Cox

This MTB proposes changes to Message Coordinator (MC) software to support DSA channels. There are two major sets of changes. The bulk of the change is the introduction of virtual channels. Several MC commands must be modified to recognize and operate on virtual channels. The smaller changes involves creation of pending entries in the mc_anstbl.

Virtual channels are accessed through the use of "-operator" and "-virtual_channel <virtual channel name>" control arguments to the "login" pre-access command. Only the login_server is made to accept these control arguments, thus they are only available through DSA connections. MTB-751, The MNA Answering Service Modifications, and MTB-752, Network Login Servers, may be referenced for more details in this area.

MTB-751, 1986-07-01, Multics Networking Architecture Answering Service Changes, Eric J. Swenson

This MTB describes proposed changes to the Answering Service to accommodate the Multics Networking Architecture (MNA). Under the new architecture, the responsibility of managing communications channels is removed from the Initializer process and delegated to a set of Login Server processes. The Initializer retains the function of the Identification and Authentication (I&A) of user requests to access Multics, as well as such functions as process manipulation. This MTB documents the new and changed Initializer process software which supports the MNA. In particular, the Answering Service support of the Login Server processes is described in detail.

MTB-752, 1986-05-01, Network Login Servers, Robert S. Coren

This MTB describes the design for a type of process that functions as a "login server" for a particular set of network endpoints. Such a process has ultimate control of all the connections to those endpoints, engages in all pre-access dialogue, and assigns the connections to user processes as appropriate. This relieves the Initializer process of the necessity of learning how to communicate with each network as it comes along; the functions of user validation and process creation, which must continue to be performed by the Initializer, are separated from those of communications channel management. A protocol has been developed for communication between the Initializer and the login servers, so that the servers can request the creation of processes, find out process IDs, be notified of process terminations in order to clean up all connections, etc.

The login server itself will not be part of the standard Multics system in MR12; it will only be included in the DSA package marketed by Bull. Its implementation, however, requires some modifications to standard system software, and these modifications are planned for MR12. Most notable among them are extensions to are extensions to the answering service and the message coordinator; these modifications are referred to in this MTB, and described in greater detail in MTBs 750 and 751.

MTB-753-02, 1986-07-10, Multiplexing Control Points in a Process, Gary M. Palter, Stan Cox

This MTB proposes changes to support simple user ring tasking. Control points are sub-process entities whose execution can be interleaved. The proposal includes general descriptions of commands and subroutines to manipulate tasks, and changes to the system to deal with the more complex environment.

MTB-754, 1986-07-22, A New tssi_ Interface to Obtain Translator Files., Rick Gray

This MTB describes a possible new interface to the system routine tssi_ that will be used by languages that access source, object, and listing files. It describes two new entrypoints and an information structure that will be used to access these files.

MTB-755, 1986-08-06, A new SSU Command deck_file_manger, Rick Fakoury

This document describes the design and implementation of a new subsystem that will provide a user interface to tools necessary to maintain a T&D deckfile. This new subsystem will replace the functionality provided by the existing load_tandd_library command and provide a number of new functions that will aide in the maintaining and updating of the deck file.

MTB-756, 1986-08-29, Video Support for MOWSE, Ron Barstad

A description of the functionality and external interfaces of Multics software to support video mode within the Multics Online WorkStation Environment (MOWSE).

MTB-757-01, 1986-10-20, ALM Symbol Table Support, Rick Gray

This MTB describes features to be added to the ALM assembler that will be of interest to ALM programmers and those compiler writers who are using ALM as an intermediary. The features will include the ability to:

  • position text entry sequences,
  • specify more information in text entry sequences,
  • create a full or partial symbol table for debugging.

These features will provide the assembler with symbolic debugging information that will be organized into a format known to probe and debug. The information will be supplied to the assembler using two new pseudo operators. These pseudo operators are described in this MTB and will allow the programmer or compiler writer to provide the assembler with information for the symbolic debugging of ALM programs. Note that this document does not describe any mechanism for the explicit specification of statement map information.

Thanks to Ward Anderson who has done most of the work on symbol table support for ALM.

MTB-758, 1986-11-28, Video Support for DSA, Gary C. Dixon

This MTB describes the interface between the Multics Video System and the communications system which is part of the Honeywell Distributed Systems Architecture (DSA) protocols.

MTB-760, 1987-08-06, Privileged Commands and Subroutines, Mary Crawford

MTB-761, 1987-01-05, Multics C Overview, Doug Robinson

MTB-762, 1987-03-30, C Runtime Extensions, Douglas Howe

MTB-763-03, 1987-07-09, Multics Command Level I/O redirection (pipes), G. William May

MTB-764, 1987-05-21, Changes to the sys_log_ Subroutine, Gary Dixon

MTB-765, 1987-08-07, Multics DSA Network Administration Guide, Mary Crawford

MTB-766, 1987-08-07, Multics DSA Unified File Transfer Facility Reference Guide, Mary Crawford

MTB-767, 1987-11-05, System V CURSES Port, Douglas Howe

MTB-769, 1987-10-14, Implementing Internet Protocol on Multics, John Hunter

MTB-770, 1987-11-05, MRDS DSL Query Language Changes, John Hergert

MTBs since 2015, 2023-08-29, Post-Honeywell MTBs, Eric Swenson

This page lists and provides links to the MTBs that have been published since the Multics simulator revived Multics development, beginning in 2016.