• 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