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Accent: A communication oriented network operating system kernel

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Richard F. Rashid,

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SOSP '81: Proceedings of the eighth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles

Pages 64 - 75

https://doi.org/10.1145/800216.806593

Published: 01 December 1981 Publication History

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Accent is a communication oriented operating system kernel being built at Carnegie-Mellon University to support the distributed personal computing project, Spice, and the development of a fault-tolerant distributed sensor network (DSN). Accent is built around a single, powerful abstraction of communication between processes, with all kernel functions, such as device access and virtual memory management accessible through messages and distributable throughout a network. In this paper, specific attention is given to system supplied facilities which support transparent network access and fault-tolerant behavior. Many of these facilities are already being provided under a modified version of VAX/UNIX. The Accent system itself is currently being implemented on the Three Rivers Corp. PERQ.

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Accent: A communication oriented network operating system kernel
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Dependable and fault-tolerant systems and networks
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Contextual software domains
      1. Operating systems
        Communications management
        Message passing
        Memory management
        Virtual memory

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SOSP '81: Proceedings of the eighth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles

December 1981

189 pages

ISBN:0897910621

DOI:10.1145/800216

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December 1981
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