An Overview of the Spring System

Spring is a highly modular, distributed, object-oriented operating system. This paper describes the goals of the Spring system and provides overviews of the Spring object model, the security model, and the naming architecture. Implementation details of the Spring microkernel, virtual memory system, file system, and UNIX emulation are supplied.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1994
• Where: COMPCON
• Authors: James G. Mitchell, Jonathan Gibbons, Graham Hamilton, Peter B. Kessler, Yousef Y. A. Khalidi, Panos Kougiouris, Peter Madany, Michael N. Nelson, Michael L. Powell, Sanjay R. Radia
• Keywords: COMPCON 1994, Computer Networks, Object-oriented Operating System, Spring Object Model, Virtual Memory System