Accent: A communication oriented network operating system kernel

Proceedings of the 8th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, SOSP 1981

Volumn , Issue , 1981, Pages 64-75

  Rashid, Richard F ^a   Robertson, George G ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed computation; Inter process communication; Network operating systems; Networking; Paging; PERQ; UNIX; VAX; Virtual memory

Indexed keywords

FAULT TOLERANCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMPUTING; SENSOR NETWORKS; UNIX;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTATIONS; INTERPROCESS COMMUNICATION; NETWORK OPERATING SYSTEM; NETWORKING; PAGING; PERQ; VIRTUAL MEMORY;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84990666603     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/800216.806593     Document Type: Conference Paper

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