A model for address-oriented software and hardware

Author

Smith, Walter R. ; Welland, Robert V.

Author_Institution

Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA, USA

Volume

i

fYear

1992

fDate

7-10 Jan 1992

Firstpage

720

Abstract

Introduces the concept of `address-oriented software´, which is software that assigns particular meaning to the values of memory addresses. Such software is often not well supported by the services of the operating system in which it operates. The authors provide some examples of address-oriented algorithms, and propose a general model of the operations they use, called `address management´, which they intend to use as the basis of a new operating system. They derive a hardware model from their formal model, and suggest implementation techniques. A partial implementation of their hardware model is an integral part of the ARM 600 processor, currently in development

Keywords

operating systems (computers); storage management; ARM 600 processor; address management; address-oriented software; formal model; hardware model; implementation techniques; memory addresses; operating system; persistent object systems; Computer architecture; Electronic catalog; Hardware; Memory management; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Operating systems; Reduced instruction set computing; Trademarks; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1992. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kauai, HI

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2420-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1992.183226

Filename

183226