Rosale Steier
Pages 239-ff.
Robert Aiken
Pages 240-242
Robert L. Ashenhurst
Pages 243-245
Diane Crawford
Pages 246-248
Abraham Peled
Page 249
John Cocke
Pages 250-253
This special collection of articles examines recent research in operating systems, focusing on particular systems and projects that are seminal and representative. The areas these articles cover include distributed operating
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Alan Shaw
Pages 255-257
A software structure created by the Heterogeneous Computer Systems (HCS) Project at the University of Washington was designed to address the problems of heterogeneity that typically arise in research computing environments.
David Notkin, Andrew P. Black, Edward D. Lazowska, Henry M. Levy, Jan Sanislo, John Zahorjan
Pages 258-273
The design of software for hard-real-time systems is usually difficult to change because of the constraints imposed by the need to meet absolute real-time deadlines on processors with limited capacity. Nevertheless, a new approach …
Stuart R. Faulk, David L. Parnas
Pages 274-287
The Cedar File System (CFS) is a workstation file system that provides access to both a workstation's local disk and to remote file servers via a single hierarchical name space. CFS supports a group of cooperating programmers …
David K. Gifford, Roger M. Needham, Michael D. Schroeder
Pages 288-298
Argus—a programming language and system developed to support the implementation and execution of distributed programs—provides mechanisms that help programmers cope with the special problems that arise in distributed programs …
Barbara Liskov
Pages 300-312
The V distributed System was developed at Stanford University as part of a research project to explore issues in distributed systems. Aspects of the design suggest important directions for the design of future operating systems …
David Cheriton
Pages 314-333
A self-assessment procedure dealing with the fundamentals of data communications
John C. Munson
Pages 334-341
Recent research has shown that user satisfaction and productivity are affected by system response time. Our purpose is to provide the results of empirical research on system response time and its effect on state anxiety. Test …
Jan L. Guynes
Pages 342-347
We present a novel, yet straightforward linear-time algorithm for merging two sorted lists in a fixed amount of additional space. Constant of proportionality estimates and empirical testing reveal that this procedure is reasonably …
Bing-Chao Huang, Michael A. Langston
Pages 348-352
