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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Compcon Spring '94, Digest of Papers.
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-5380-9
DOI :
10.1109/CMPCON.1994.282935
