Year: 1970
Type: conference-abstract
Abstract: There are a variety of considerations which are pertinent to the design of the interface between programs and typewriter-class remote terminal devices in a general-purpose time-sharing system. The conventions used for editing, converting, and reduction to canonical form of the stream of characters passing to and from remote terminals is the subject of this paper. The particular techniques used in the Multics system are presented as an example of a single unified design of the entire character stream processing interface. The sections which follow contain discussion of character set considerations, character stream processing objectives, character stream reduction to canonical form, line and print position deletion, and other interface problems. An appendix gives a formal description of the canonical form for stored character strings used in Multics.
Authors: J. H. Saltzer, J. F. Ossanna
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Science Applications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2112831761