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USENIX
1990
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Efficient User-Level File Cache Management on the Sun Vnode Interface
In developing a distributed file system, there are several good reasons for implementing the client file cache manager as a user-level process. These include ease of implementatio...
David C. Steere, James J. Kistler, Mahadev Satyana...
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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UNIX as an Application Program
David B. Golub, Randall W. Dean, Alessandro Forin,...