Variations on UNIX for parallel-processing computers

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 1987, Pages 1048-1055

  Russell, Channing H ^a   Waterman, Pamela J ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Butterfly; demand paging; GP1000; interprocessor communications; kernel; Mach; process; task; thread; UNIX

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS, DIGITAL - PARALLEL PROCESSING;

BUTTERFLY SYSTEMS; MACH; UNIX;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0023535208     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/33447.33450     Document Type: Article

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