XOS
- 1 April 1981
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
- Vol. 15 (2) , 21-32
- https://doi.org/10.1145/1041459.1041462
Abstract
This paper describes the fundamentals of the X-TREE Operating System (XOS), a system developed to investigate the effects of the X-TREE architecture on operating system design. It outlines the goals and constraints of the project and describes the major features and modules of XOS. Two concepts are of special interest: The first is demand paging across the network of nodes and the second is separation of the global object space and the directory structure used to reference it. Weaknesses in the model are discussed along with directions for future research.Keywords
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