A new general-purpose operating system
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Authors
Venter, B.H.
Issue Date
1988
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Article
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en
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Abstract
The current generation of widely-used, multi-user, general-purpose operating systems have evolved from
versions that were designed when many of the issues that are important today were unimportant or not even
thought of. This evolution has not been totally successful. In particular, the current generation is ill suited/or
implementation on loosely-coupled multi-processors. A new operating system, designed with current
requirements in mind, and flexible enough to adapt successfully to likely future requirements, has been
developed as part of a project to build a loosely-coupled multi-processor system that should have the
performance and functionality of a 'super mainframe' computer. This paper concentrates on describing the
fundamental mechanisms of the operating system: processes, inter-process communication, and servers. It also
briefly outlines the support provided/or data security, database applications, and real-time applications.
Keywords: operating systems, system calls, inter-process communication, distributed systems, operating
system security, operating system database support, real-time.
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B H Venter (1988) A new general-purpose operating system. Quaestiones Informaticae Vol 6 No 1 1988
Publisher
Computer Society of South Africa (on behalf of SAICSIT)
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0254-2757