Unix as an Application Program

Unix as an Application Program (1990)

by David Golub , Randall Dean , Alessandro Forin , All Dean , Ro Forin , Richard Rashid

Venue:	In USENIX 1990 Summer Conference
Citations:	156 - 6 self

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TITLE	Unix as an Application Program	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR NAME	David Golub	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR ADDR	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR NAME	All Dean	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR ADDR	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR NAME	Ro Forin	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR ADDR	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR NAME	Richard Rashid	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR ADDR	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
ABSTRACT	Since March of 1989 we have had running at CMU a computing environment in which the functions of a traditional Unix system are cleanly divided into two parts: facilities which manage the hardware resources of a computer system (such as CPU, I/O and memory) and support for higher-level resource abstractions used in the building of application programs, e.g. files and sockets. This paper describes the implementation of Unix as a multithreaded application program running on the Mach kernel. The rationale, design, implementation history and performance of the system is presented.	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
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