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Correspondence with Harry J. Gray, University of Pennsylvania; Thomas L. Connors, Mitre Corp.; John Pinkerton (?), English Electric Computers Ltd.

A collection by the author of ten offprint and TS lectures by MVW giving 'one person's view of the progress in workstation design as it was being made'.

The papers include 'Towards effective time-sharing: the next step' (18 Nov. 1968); 'A language for a pocket calculator', with a letter to Clive Sinclair, 17 Aug. 1972; 'Specification for multi-chip programmable calculator'; 'The computer design situation'; 'Memory protection'; 'The role of microprocessors in a computer configuration'; 'Reflections on the state of art in operating systems'; 'New range virtual storage'; 'The problem of pattern recognition'; 'An outline of CAFS'; 'Notes on the status of MULTICS in October 1970'; 'Some notes on paging and its objectives' (16 Feb. 1970); 'The computer design situation' (26 Aug. 1969); further reflections on the same, 23 Sep. 1969; 'The future trend of operating system research' (28 Apr. 1970); 'Specification for multi chip programmable calculator', by Phillip Pittman (June 1974); 'The long term future of the computer industry'; 'The computer industry' by C. Strachey, 9 June 1964; 'IBM virtual-storage operating systems'; correspondence with Dr John Pinkerton and Dr M. R. Patel of ICL.

Includes comments on a draft monograph by Donald Michie, 1994; Titan instruction Set, 1984 and undated; developments in computer design; 'Back to the dark ages'; the ACRITH method for solving linear equations, 1985; J. H. Saltzer, 'Comments on the Standard Ethernet', 1980; 'Research in the computer industry', 1986; 'Simulated shared memory', 1986; 'Hoop-la', 1981; 'Logic with light valves', 1986 (annotated 'This is pure science fiction'); 'Optical computing', 1986 (annotated 'The true optical computer is years away'); cartoon 'Dicky Dec and the Micros', drawn for Gordon Bell.

Includes papers titled 'PANGEA or What comes after ATM' (1997), 'Program profiling and related research' (1996), 'Investigation of systems based on point-to-point fibre links: road map' (1996), 'Primary and secondary caches', 'Computer security: a cultural and technical problem' (1988-9), 'Computer engineering versus computer science' (1989), 'Improving the human interface: a practical suggestion' (1986). Also includes message to Jim Donahue reflecting on message systems, 1986.

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These papers relate to visits to Tokyo, to collect the C&C Prize, and to Boston for the 25th anniversary celebration of Project Mac. Includes correspondence with Katsura Kawakami, National Panasonic; Koji Kobayashi and Yukimatsu Takeda, Foundation for C&C Promotion.

The lecture tour was made following an initial invitation by the Australian Computer Society. Correspondence with Mehdi S. Zarghamee, Arya-Mehr University of Technology, Tehran; R. W. Rutledge and P. R. Masters, Australian Computer Society; G. N. Lance, CSIRO; Robert Tih, HK Computer Society; J. M. Bennett, University of Sydney; B. A. M. Moon, University of Canterbury; D. C. Carpenter, ACS Western Australia Branch chairman; Roger Needham; A. J. Henley, NZ Computer Society; Rahim M. Irvani, Irvanco Tehran; R. Narasimhan, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Bombay; J. Boothroyd, University of Tasmania.

Includes correspondence with Lynn Conway, University of Michigan; Donald A. Gaubatz; Jeremy Dion, DEC; Keith Diefendorff; Don Knuth and John McCarthy, Stanford.