Spelunking CACM, Vol. 24 (1981): Hierarchical Storage Management, OS Support for Databases

Alan Jay Smith was a consultant for a company I worked for in the late 1990s. Very smart guy, already seemed "old" to me then, but he was quite a bit younger then than I am now. Geez. He worked on processor architecture, but his most influential work has been on storage systems, and here in 1981 he was already deep into what became known around this time as hierarchical storage management (HSM)…