Oonix: an object-oriented Unix shell

Author

Bueché, Edward C. ; Franklin, Maurice T. ; Holley, Edward R. ; Korth, Henry F. ; Sheppard, Gene C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Texas Univ., Austin, TX, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1989

fDate

3-6 Jan 1989

Firstpage

928

Abstract

Oonix is a user interface to the Unix operating system that offers the user an iconic, object-oriented environment. A preliminary version of Oonix, running on a Sun-3 workstation and interfacing with Sun-Windows is described. Issues in the user interface, the Unix interface, and the internal structure of Oonix itself are described. Performance questions are considered, and techniques built into Oonix for efficiency as well as improvements that are either planned or in development are described. Object-orientation as a paradigm for operating-system interfaces is compared with alternative paradigms

Keywords

Unix; object-oriented programming; user interfaces; workstations; Oonix; Sun-3 workstation; Sun-Windows; efficiency; iconic environment; internal structure; object-oriented Unix shell; operating system; performance; user interface; Computer interfaces; Computer languages; Data structures; Encapsulation; File systems; Object oriented programming; Operating systems; Trademarks; User interfaces; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1989. Vol.II: Software Track, Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kailua-Kona, HI

Print_ISBN

0-8186-1912-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1989.48104

Filename

48104