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The Design and Implementation of an Operating System to Support Distributed Multimedia Applications (1996)
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@MISC{Leslie96thedesign,
author = {Ian Leslie and Derek Mcauley and Richard Black and Timothy Roscoe and Paul Barham and David Evers and Robin Fairbairns and Eoin Hyden},
title = {The Design and Implementation of an Operating System to Support Distributed Multimedia Applications},
year = {1996}
}
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Abstract
Support for multimedia applications by general purpose computing platforms has been the subject of considerable research. Much of this work is based on an evolutionary strategy in which small changes to existing systems are made. The approach adopted here is to start ab initio with no backward compatibility constraints. This leads to a novel structure for an operating system. The structure aims to decouple applications from one another and to provide multiplexing of all resources, not just the CPU, at a low level. The motivation for this structure, a design based on the structure, and its implementation on a number of hardware platforms is described. I. Introduction G ENERAL purpose multimedia computing platforms should endow text, images, audio and video with equal status: interpreting an audio or video stream should not be a privileged task of special functions provided by the operating system, but one of ordinary user programs. Support for such processing on a platform on which ot...
Keyphrases
operating system support distributed multimedia application hardware platform backward compatibility constraint small change general purpose video stream novel structure privileged task introduction eneral purpose multimedia equal status considerable research special function evolutionary strategy multimedia application ordinary user program low level
