A Local Network Based on the UNIX Operating System

Author

Rowe, Lawrence A. ; Birman, Kenneth P.

Author_Institution

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California

Issue

2

fYear

1982

fDate

3/1/1982 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

137

Lastpage

146

Abstract

The design and implementation of a local network operating ystem based on the UNIX¹operating system is described. UNIX has been extended to allow existing programs to access remote resources with no source program changes. Programs may access remote files, have a remote working directory, execute remote programs, and communicate with remote processes using the standard UNIX interprocess communication mechanism (pipe´s). An efficient message-oriented interprocess communication mechanism and asynchronous I/O were added to the system to support the development of distributed applications and to make it easier to connect the local network to packet-switched networks.

Keywords

Interprocess communication; local computer networks; multidestination protocols; network operating systems; Access protocols; Application software; Communication standards; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Database systems; Distributed computing; Network operating systems; Operating systems; Throughput; Interprocess communication; local computer networks; multidestination protocols; network operating systems;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-5589

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TSE.1982.234956

Filename

1702921