Operating system support for an object-oriented environment

Author

Guedes, Paulo ; Marques, José Alves

Author_Institution

INESC, Lisbon, Portugal

fYear

1989

fDate

27-29 Sep 1989

Firstpage

37

Lastpage

42

Abstract

An overview is given of the Comandos project of the European Strategic Programme for Research on Information Technology (ESPRIT). The initial phase of the project was devoted to the definition of the Comandos virtual machine and resulted from contributions of the different partners in the project. Then several testbed implementations were started to validate the basic ideas of the architecture. The virtual machine and its supporting architecture are described. Some design issues faced in the development of the prototype are presented, with particular reference to the object memory. The current status of the project and future plans are briefly discussed

Keywords

object-oriented programming; operating systems (computers); research initiatives; storage management; virtual machines; Comandos project; Comandos virtual machine; ESPRIT; design issues; future plans; object memory; object-oriented environment; operating system support; supporting architecture; testbed implementations; Application software; Communication standards; Fault tolerance; Hardware; Object oriented modeling; Operating systems; Protocols; Software reusability; Software standards; Virtual machining;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Workstation Operating Systems, 1989., Proceedings of the Second Workshop on

Conference_Location

Pacific Grove, CA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WWOS.1989.109265

Filename

109265