DocumentCode
1719164
Title
An overview of the Spring system
Author
Mitchell, J.G. ; Gibbons, J.J. ; Hamilton, G. ; Kessler, P.B. ; Khalidi, Y.A. ; Kougiouris, P. ; Madany, P.W. ; Nelson, M.N. ; Powell, M.L. ; Radia, S.R.
Author_Institution
Sun Microsyst. Comput. Corp., Mountain View, CA, USA
fYear
1994
Firstpage
122
Lastpage
131
Abstract
Spring is a highly modular, distributed, object-oriented operating system. This paper describes the goals of the Spring system and provides overviews of the Spring object model, the security model, and the naming architecture. Implementation details of the Spring microkernel, virtual memory system, file system, and UNIX emulation are supplied.<>
Keywords
Unix; network operating systems; object-oriented programming; security of data; virtual machines; virtual storage; Spring; UNIX emulation; file system; implementation; microkernel; modular distributed object-oriented operating system; naming architecture; object model; security model; virtual memory system; Application software; Emulation; Investments; Marketing and sales; Object oriented modeling; Operating systems; Programming profession; Security; Springs; Sun;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Compcon Spring '94, Digest of Papers.
Conference_Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN
0-8186-5380-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CMPCON.1994.282935
Filename
282935
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