The interactive performance of SLIM: A stateless, thin-client architecture

Proceedings of the 17th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, SOSP 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 32-47

  Schmidt, Brian K ^a   Lam, Monica S ^a   Northcutt, J Duane ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPLAY DEVICES; EARTHQUAKES; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TELEPHONE SETS;

COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS; INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE; INTERCONNECTION FABRICS; INTERCONNECTION TECHNOLOGY; MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS; REAL-LIFE APPLICATIONS; THIN CLIENT ARCHITECTURE;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 85008994305     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/319151.319154     Document Type: Conference Paper

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