The RHODOS microkernel, kernel servers and their cooperation

19 November 2002

conference paper
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Vol. 1, 345-354
https://doi.org/10.1109/icapp.1995.472204

Abstract

The use of a microkernel as the foundation for modern distributed operating systems is a common decision made among system designers. This paper describes the RHODOS distributed operating system, the design decisions, its' microkernel and kernel servers. The different approaches to the cooperation between the RHODOS microkernel and the kernel servers are presented including an analysis of the trade-offs these approaches yield between modularity and performance.

Keywords

KERNEL
OPERATING SYSTEMS
SYSTEM PERFORMANCE
MESSAGE PASSING
MATHEMATICS
AUSTRALIA
MODEMS
SPRITES (COMPUTER)
DISPATCHING
NETWORK SERVERS

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

The Sprite network operating system
Computer, 1988
Distributed operating systems
ACM Computing Surveys, 1985