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SOSP
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2003
ACM
Despite decades of research in extensible operating system technology, extensions such as device drivers remain a significant cause of system failures. In Windows XP, for example,...
ISCA
1996
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
1996
IEEE
Parallel workstations, each comprising 10-100 processors, promise cost-effective general-purpose multiprocessing. This paper explores the coupling of such small- to medium-scale s...
USENIX
2000
13 years 8 months ago
2000
Language-basedextensible systems, such as Java Virtual Machines and SPIN, use type safety to provide memory safety in a single address space. By using software to provide safety, ...
USITS
2001
13 years 8 months ago
2001
In traditional operating systems, modifying the network protocol code is a tedious and error-prone task, largely because the networking stack resides in the kernel. For this reaso...
VEE
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2006
ACM
Many critical IT infrastructures require non-disruptive operations. However, the operating systems thereon are far from perfect that patches and upgrades are frequently applied, i...