Current operating systems offer poor performance when a numeric application's working set does not fit in main memory. As a result, programmers who wish to solve "out-of...
This paper describes a novel approach to providingmodular and extensible operating system functionality and encapsulated environments based on a synthesis of microkernel and virtu...
Bryan Ford, Mike Hibler, Jay Lepreau, Patrick Tull...
AudioFile is a portable, device-independent, network-transparent system for computer audio systems. to the X Window System, it provides an abstract audio device interface with a s...
Jim Gettys, Thoms M. Levergood, Andrew C. Payne, L...
TreadMarks is a distributed shared memory DSM system for standard Unix systems such as SunOS and Ultrix. This paper presents a performance evaluation of TreadMarks running on Ultr...
Peter J. Keleher, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, ...
A hybrid of window system, shell, and editor, Acme gives text-oriented applications a clean, expressive, and consistent style of interaction. Traditional window systems support in...