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USENIX
1990
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Why Aren't Operating Systems Getting Faster As Fast as Hardware?
This paper evaluates several hardware platforms and operating systems using a set of benchmarks that stress kernel entry/exit, file systems, and other things related to operating ...
John K. Ousterhout
USENIX
1990
14 years 24 days ago
Tcl: An Embeddable Command Language
Tcl is an interpreter for a tool command language. It consists of a library package that is embedded in tools (such as editors, debuggers, etc.) as the basic command interpreter. ...
John K. Ousterhout
USENIX
1990
14 years 24 days ago
A Pageable Memory Based Filesystem
This paper describes the motivations for memory-based filesystems. It compares techniques used to implement them and describes the drawbacks of using dedicated memory to support s...
Marshall K. McKusick, Michael J. Karels, Keith Bos...
USENIX
1990
14 years 24 days ago
The Evolution of Dbx
Dbx is the standard source-level debugger on most Unix1 workstations. Over the past six years Dbx has grown from a debugger for interpreted Pascal programs to a debugger for compi...
Mark A. Linton
USENIX
1990
14 years 24 days ago
swm: An X Window Manager Shell
swm is a policy-free, user configurable window manager client for the X Window System. Besides providing basic window manager functionality, swm introduces new features not found ...
Thomas E. LaStrange
USENIX
1990
14 years 24 days ago
Implementation of the Ficus Replicated File System
As we approach nation-wide integration of computer systems, it is clear that le replication will play a key role, both to improve data availability in the face of failures, and to...
Richard G. Guy, John S. Heidemann, Wai-Kei Mak, Th...
USENIX
1990
14 years 24 days ago
UNIX as an Application Program
David B. Golub, Randall W. Dean, Alessandro Forin,...
USENIX
1990
14 years 24 days ago
The COPS Security Checker System
In the past several years, there have been a large number of published works that have graphically described a wide variety of security problems particular to Unix. Without fail, ...
Daniel Farmer, Eugene H. Spafford
USENIX
1990
14 years 24 days ago
A New Design for Distributed Systems: The Remote Memory Model
This paper describes a new model for constructing distributed systems called the Remote Memory Model. The remote memory model consists of several client machines, one or more dedi...
Douglas Comer, Jim Griffioen