Second page of Wilkes's relatively short paper on "Slave Memories".
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Second page of Wilkes's relatively short paper on "Slave Memories". The paper was completed using only the upper half of the page.
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Maurice Wilkes Introduces Memory Caching, Giving it a Name No Longer Politically Correct

4/1965
First page of Wilkes's two-page paper on "Slave Memories"
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First page of Wilkes's two-page paper on "Slave Memories"

In April 1965 British computer scientist Maurice Wilkes introduced memory caching.

Initially gave it a name that would no longer be politically correct: "slave memory." See Wilkes, "Slave Memories and Dynamic Storage Allocation,"  IEEE Transactions on Electronic Computers, Vol. EC-1.4, Issue: 2, (April 1965) 270-271.

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