| J.K. Ousterhout, "Medusa: A Distributed Operating System", Computing Reviews, 23(5), 1982. |
....late fall of 1977, and coding started in the summer of 1978. The current status of the research is unknown. Contact: John K. Ousterhout, Dept. of Computer Science, UC Berkeley or Donald A. Scelza, PRIME Computer, Inc. Old Connecticut Path, Framingham, MA 01701. References: 233] 234] 235] [236] 2.34 Meglos Main Goal Meglos extends the UNIX operating system with simple and powerful communication and synchronization primitives needed in real time environments. Location and access transparent communication is achieved using channels. Advantages The main advantage of the Meglos ....
J.K. Ousterhout, "Medusa: A Distributed Operating System", Computing Reviews, 23(5), 1982.
....this design serializes the handling of debugging events, thus precluding our strategy of allocating one debugging agent per processor or per thread of control. 2.2. 3 Medusa Many of the ideas in the Mach and PLATINUM exception handling mechanism were pioneered in the Medusa operating system [Ous81] The exceptions caused by a process (called an activity ) could be handled by several entities. Each exception is reported to an internal handler responsible for cleaning up the control structures of the target activity and, optionally, to an external handler responsible for cleaning up the ....
J. K. Ousterhout. Medusa: a distributed operating system. UMI Research Press, 1981.
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J. K. Ousterhout, Medusa: a distributed operating system. UMI Research Press, 1981.
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