MSPM Authors

The Multics System Programmer's Manual was written by members of the MIT, Bell Labs, and GE Multics development team in 1965-1969. It comprised about 3,000 pages consisting of 838 sections (821 are online). This chart shows the number of sections written by each author in the "final" copy of the MSPM scanned by the Multics History Project.

(To view the MSPM sections written by a particular person, the easiest way is to visit the MSPM Table of Contents page in a web browser, and search for the person's name.)

Author Name	Sections
Wagner, Donald B.	106
Martin (Switzer), Karolyn J.	102
Saltzer, Jerome H.	96
Rappaport, Robert L.	90
Graham, Robert M.	84
Padlipsky, Michael A.	82
Marceau, Carla M.	74
Spier, Michael J.	72
Daley, Robert C.	66
Ossanna, Joseph F.	62
Stone, David L.	60
Evans, Arthur, Jr.	44
Meyer, Edwin W.	44
Dunten, Stanley D.	42
Garman, Charles C.	42
Morris, Noel I.	40
Widrig, Donald R.	40
Van Vleck, Thomas H.	38
Cushing, Carole A.	34
Rosenbaum, Susan L.	34
Johnson, Donald H.	30
Bensoussan, André	28
Grochow, Jerrold M.	26
McIlroy, M. Douglas	26
Mills, James D.	26
Neumann, Peter G.	26
Skinner, Thomas P.	24
Strickler, Walter R.	24
Clancy, Gerald F.	22
Feiertag, Richard J.	22
Thompson, Mary R.	22
Vyssotsky, Victor A.	22
Webber, Steven H.	22
Ziegler, Guy G.	20
Boyd, Diana L.	18
Joel, David E.	18
Ritchie, Dennis M.	18
Feldman, Stuart I.	16
Levinson, David A.	16
Ratcliff, L. Braxton	16
Wagner, Mary R.	16
Fenichel, Robert R.	14
Gintell, John W.	14
Lambert, Leo J.	14
Sobecki, Robert J.	14
Cecil, Janice H.	13
Frick, Harlow E.	13
Bjorkman, Elizabeth Quisenberry	12
Corbató, Fernando J.	12
Jones, Chester	12
Thomas, Robert H.	12
Wolman, Barry L.	12
Smith, Patricia E.	11
Adleman, Nathan A.	10
Rathbun, Robert K.	10
Hughes, Glenda Schroeder	10
Southworth, William H.	10
Deitel, Harvey	8
Garthe, Larry L.	8
Gimpel, James F.	8
Harkins, James D.	8
Ivie, Evan L.	8
Tague, Berkeley A.	8
Thompson, Kenneth L.	8
Belmont, Peter A.	6
Goldberg, Barbara P.	6
Hebert, Harry J.	6
Stoller, Gerald S.	6
Weiss, Ruth A.	6
Canaday, Rudd	5
Schicker, Peter	5
Turnquist, Mary C.	5
Eastwood, Douglas E.	4
Edwards, Daniel J.	4
Freiburghouse, Robert A.	4
Meer, Moseley A.	4
Morris, Robert	4
Nguyen, Van Binh	4
Olmsted, Coert D.	4
Scholtz, Jean	4
Shih, Ke	4
Ancona, Enrico I.	3
Goldberg, I. Bennett	3
Slosberg, David H.	3
Voydock, Victor L.	3
Wantman, Mayer E.	3
Bash, Jacquelin L.	2
Bianchi, Maurice	2
Clark, David D.	2
Crisman, Patricia A.	2
Dean, Albert L.	2
Donovan, John J.	2
Glaser, Edward L.	2
Kernighan, Brian W.	2
Krekeler, George B.	2
Ohayon, Solomon	2
Sasaki, Akio	2
Schroeder, Michael D.	2
Selwyn, Lee L.	2
Strachey, Christopher	2
Bartlett, W. S.	1
Benjafield, Gail	1
Chang, Gabriel D. Y.	1
Fateman, Martha Nelson	1
Gardner, Richard	1
Jones, S. W.	1
Kidd, Steven	1
Liebling, Norman H.	1
Magnuski, Henry S.	1
Meyers, J.	1
Noll, J. Crawford	1
Poduska, J. William	1
Ridgeway, John A.	1
Shpiz, Leo	1
Shy, Izhar	1
Spall, Judith W.	1
Turbiner, Sheila	1
VanHausen, J. David	1
Vinograd, David R.	1
Whitehead, Lonnie	1

These numbers are approximate. Many MSPM sections were revised several times, renumbered, or rewritten by different authors. Unfortunately, this information was not saved. So 120 is a lower bound on the number of MSPM authors, and 838 may be about half the number of sections published.

There were 2103 author references, so the average number of authors for an MSPM section was 2.5. No section had more than 4 authors: the distribution is: