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HOTOS
1993
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
xFS: A Wide Area Mass Storage File System
The current generation of le systems are inadequate in facing the new technological challenges of wide area networks and massive storage. xFS is a prototype le system we are devel...
Randolph Y. Wang, Thomas E. Anderson
HOTOS
1993
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Using Reconciliation to Share Files Between Occasionally Connected Computers
Future large distributed systems will be made by interconnecting highly autonomous subsystems, rather than by building ever more elaborate complexes which attempt to provide a sin...
John H. Howard
HOTOS
1993
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Object Groups May Be Better Than Pages
I argue against trying to solve the problem of clustering objects into disk pages. Instead, I propose that objects be fetched in groups that may be specific to an application or ...
Mark Day
HOTOS
1993
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Processor Capacity Reserves: An Abstraction for Managing Processor Usage
Clifford W. Mercer, Stefan Savage, Hideyuki Tokuda
HOTOS
1993
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Providing Network Video Service to Mobile Clients
Mobile computing and multimedia are two emerging trends in computer systems. One foreseeable application suggested by these two trends is the playback of stored video on both mobi...
Bruce A. Mah, Srinivasan Seshan, Kimberly Keeton, ...
HOTOS
1993
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
User Interface Issues in Mobile Computing
The age of mobile computing with small portable computers is upon us. However, systems researchers continue to focus on transferring their workstation environments to these machin...
James A. Landay, Todd R. Kaufmann
HOTOS
1993
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
The Need for Customizable Operating Systems
Gregor Kiczales, John Lamping, Chris Maeda, David ...