The Nucleus-microkernel for the RHODOS distributed operating system

Author

Toomey, Warren ; Goscinski, Andrzej ; Gerrity, George

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of New South Wales, Canberra, ACT, Australia

fYear

1992

Firstpage

232

Abstract

New architectural approaches are required in the design of distributed operating systems, to meet the requirements of openness and high performance. One approach is to build the distributed operating system as a set of independent system servers, cooperating through a small set of primitive operations provided by a microkernel. The Nucleus is the microkernel of the RHODOS system. It is explained why a microkernel-based design was chosen. The features and advantages of the system are reported, and the Nucleus data structures and other services provided to facilitate the microkernel abstraction are described

Keywords

data structures; distributed processing; network operating systems; Nucleus; RHODOS system; architecture; data structures; distributed operating systems; microkernel abstraction; system servers; Australia Council; Computer architecture; Computer peripherals; Computer science; Data structures; Educational institutions; Memory management; Operating systems; Protection; Resource management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON '92. ''Technology Enabling Tomorrow : Computers, Communications and Automation towards the 21st Century.' 1992 IEEE Region 10 International Conference.

Conference_Location

Melbourne, Vic.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0849-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.1992.271949

Filename

271949