Abstract
Roscoe is an experimental operating system designed to allow several identical general-purpose processors to cooperate in providing a multi-user computing resource. A kernel program residing on each processor initiates processes and transmits messages. Other operating system services such as device control and file management, are provided by utility processes. These utilities differ from user processes only in having access to a few privileged kernel services, such as process initiation. This paper discusses the resource manager, a utility process that resides on each processor and controls access to such resources as other utility processes, random-access storage, and processor time. The resource manager has been designed to allow experimentation with various strategies for placement of processes and allocation of resources.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 88-91 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| State | Published - 1979 |
| Event | Dig Pap IEEE Comput Soc Int Conf 18th, COMPCON 79 Spring - San Francisco, CA, USA Duration: Feb 26 1979 → Mar 1 1979 |
Conference
| Conference | Dig Pap IEEE Comput Soc Int Conf 18th, COMPCON 79 Spring |
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| City | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Period | 2/26/79 → 3/1/79 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Engineering