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The Amoeba Distributed Operating System

by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Gregory J. Sharp, De Boelelaan A , 1992
"... INTRODUCTION Roughly speaking, we can divide the history of modern computing into the following eras: d 1970s: Timesharing (1 computer with many users) d 1980s: Personal computing (1 computer per user) d 1990s: Parallel computing (many computers per user) Until about 1980, computers were huge, e ..."
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, expensive, and located in computer centers. Most organizations had a single large machine. In the 1980s, prices came down to the point where each user could have his or her own personal computer or workstation. These machines were often networked together, so that users could do remote logins on other

Pilot: An Operating System for a Personal Computer

by David D. Redell, Yogen K. Dalal, Thomas R. Horsley, Hugh C. Lauer, William C. Lynch, Paul R. McJones, Hal G. Murray, Stephen C. Purcell , 1980
"... this paper was presented at the 7th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Pacific Grove, Calif., Dec. 10-12, 1979 ..."
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this paper was presented at the 7th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Pacific Grove, Calif., Dec. 10-12, 1979

Predicting Human Interruptibility with Sensors: A Wizard of Oz Feasibility Study

by Scott E. Hudson, James Fogarty, Christopher G. Atkeson, Daniel Avrahami, Jodi Forlizzi, Sara Kiesler, Johnny C. Lee, Jie Yang - CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS , 2003
"... A person seeking someone else's attention is normally able to quickly assess how interruptible they are. This assessment allows for behavior we perceive as natural, socially appropriate, or simply polite. On the other hand, today's computer systems are almost entirely oblivious to the huma ..."
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A person seeking someone else's attention is normally able to quickly assess how interruptible they are. This assessment allows for behavior we perceive as natural, socially appropriate, or simply polite. On the other hand, today's computer systems are almost entirely oblivious

Gaia: A Middleware Infrastructure to Enable Active Spaces

by Manuel Román, Christopher Hess, Renato Cerqueira, Roy H. Campbell, Klara Nahrstedt - IEEE Pervasive Computing , 2002
"... We envision a future where people’s living spaces are interactive and programmable. Users interact with their offices, homes, cars, malls and airports to request information, benefit from the resources available, and configure the habitat’s behavior. Data and tasks are always accessible and are mapp ..."
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-enabled computing resources. To limit the scope of our research, we focus on physical spaces used for teaching; classrooms, offices, and lecture rooms. The system described in this paper is derived from a series of experiments starting in 1996. We show how, by applying the concepts of a conventional operating

Lifestreams: A Storage Model for Personal Data

by Eric Freeman, David Gelernter - ACM SIGMOD Bulletin , 1996
"... Conventional software systems, such as those based on the "desktop metaphor," are ill-equipped to manage the electronic information and events of the typical computer user. We introduce a new metaphor, Lifestreams, for dynamically organizing a user's personal workspace. Lifestreams us ..."
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Conventional software systems, such as those based on the "desktop metaphor," are ill-equipped to manage the electronic information and events of the typical computer user. We introduce a new metaphor, Lifestreams, for dynamically organizing a user's personal workspace. Lifestreams

Operating Systems Pilot: An Operating System for a Personal Computer

by David D. Redell, Yogen K. Dalal, Thomas R. Horsley, Hugh C. Lauer, William C. Lynch, Paul R. Mcjones, Hal G. Murray, Stephen C. Purcell
"... The Pilot operating system provides a single-user, single-language environment for higher level software on a powerful personal computer. Its features include virtual memory, a large "fiat " file system, streams, network communication facilities, and concurrent programming support. ..."
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The Pilot operating system provides a single-user, single-language environment for higher level software on a powerful personal computer. Its features include virtual memory, a large "fiat " file system, streams, network communication facilities, and concurrent programming support

The Wearable Remembrance Agent: A System for Augmented Memory

by Bradley J. Rhodes - Personal Technologies , 1997
"... This paper describes the wearable Remembrance Agent, a continuously running proactive memory aid that uses the physical context of a wearable computer to provide notes that might be relevant in that context. A currently running prototype is described, along with future directions for research inspir ..."
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to plummet, these devices will enable all kinds of applications, from consumer electronics to personal communicators to field-operations support. Given that the primary use of today's palm-top computers is as day-planners, address books, and notebooks, one can expect memory aids will be an important

Accent: A Communication Oriented Network Operating System Kernel

by Richard F. Rashid, George G. Robertson - In Proc. 8th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles , 1981
"... Accent is a communication oriented operating system kernel being built at Carnegie-Mellon University to support the distributed personal computing project, Spice, and the development of a fault-tolerant distributed sensor network (DSN). Accent is. built around a single, powerful abstraction of commu ..."
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Accent is a communication oriented operating system kernel being built at Carnegie-Mellon University to support the distributed personal computing project, Spice, and the development of a fault-tolerant distributed sensor network (DSN). Accent is. built around a single, powerful abstraction

The Measured Performance of Personal Computer Operating Systems

by J. Bradley Chen, Yasuhiro Endo, Kee Chan, David Mazi - ACM Transactions on Computer Systems , 1996
"... This paper presents a comparative study of the performance of three operating systems that run on the personal computer archi-tecture derived from the IBM-PC, The operating systems, Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT, and NetBSD (a freely available variant of the UNIX operating system), cover a broa ..."
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This paper presents a comparative study of the performance of three operating systems that run on the personal computer archi-tecture derived from the IBM-PC, The operating systems, Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT, and NetBSD (a freely available variant of the UNIX operating system), cover a

Distributed object-based programming systems

by Roger S. Chin, Samuel, T. Chanson - ACM Computing Surveys , 1991
"... The development of distributed operating systems and object-based programming languages makes possible an environment in which programs consisting of a set of interacting modules, or objects, may execute concurrently on a collection of loosely coupled processors, An object-based programming language ..."
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language encourages a methodology for designing and creating a program as a set of autonomous components, whereas a distributed operating system permits a collection of workstations or personal computers to be treated as a single entity. The amalgamation of these two concepts has resulted in systems
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