From: Rod Haper <rhaper@houston.rr.com>
Subject: Re: Ada-inspired OS/Language
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 02:17:10 GMT
Date: 2002-09-12T02:17:10+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <GOSf9.235659$eK6.6568135@twister.austin.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3d76c7b5.341624650@news.cis.dfn.de
Nick Roberts wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Sep 2002 17:24:32 GMT, Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com> strongly
> typed:
>
>
>>Nick Roberts wrote:
>>
>>>Yes, I think it is. I am not very familiar with Andrew, but my impression
>>>is that in fact no-one has produced a truly distributed OS yet (that can
>>>shuffle processes between workstations arbitrarily, without any major
>>>restrictions).
>>
>>I believe Ameoba (by Tanenbaum) will do this without much trouble. Of
>>course, you have to move the process to a machine with the same CPU and
>>enough memory, but that seems reasonable. It's a capability-based OS, and it
>>assumes (for example) that the place you compute and the place you hand
>>disks off of are two separate machines. (I think it even assumes your
>>directories live on a different machine than the actual data files.) Moving
>>processes between computers would be a user-level operation in this system.
>>(Freeze the process, find a new computer, allocate new memory, copy old
>>memory to new memory, start process in new memory, abort old process.)
>
>
> This sounds very similar to how AdaOS will do it.
>
>
>>Google for it. The papers describing the architecture are (were) online, if
>>not the full source code.
>
>
> I'm sure I tried this (and got relatively little information), but I will
> try again! ... I tried and got loads of stuff. Great! Much reading matter.
>
If you haven't already, you might also want to have a look at Inferno
for ideas about a distributed OS architecture, applications, security,
programming language support, etc.
http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/index.html
http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/concepts.html
http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers.html
http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/bltj.html
--
Rod
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2002-08-20 14:10 Ada-inspired OS/Language Ryan
2002-08-20 14:34 ` Jim Rogers
2002-08-20 14:59 ` Darren New
2002-08-20 17:57 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-08-29 22:24 ` Nick Roberts
2002-08-30 13:33 ` Marin D. Condic
2002-08-31 3:38 ` Nick Roberts
2002-08-31 13:54 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-04 16:47 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2002-09-04 17:24 ` Darren New
2002-09-05 3:16 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-05 8:41 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-09-12 2:17 ` Rod Haper [this message]
2002-09-06 17:31 ` Richard Riehle
2002-09-07 0:23 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-07 13:43 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-07 15:18 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-08 22:14 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-09-09 10:27 ` Advantage of XML based GUI? (was Re: Ada-inspired OS/Language) Preben Randhol
2002-09-09 14:27 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-09-09 14:02 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-09 14:43 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-09 21:58 ` Ryan Tarpine
2002-09-11 16:40 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-09-12 10:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-09-12 16:43 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-09-12 18:54 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-09-12 21:22 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-09-13 12:15 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-09-10 5:21 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-09-10 5:21 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-09-10 12:31 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-10 13:16 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-15 19:49 ` Christopher Browne
2002-09-10 22:32 ` achrist
2002-09-11 4:45 ` Christopher Browne
2002-09-11 5:59 ` achrist
2002-09-12 14:55 ` Christopher Browne
2002-09-11 2:28 ` Ted Dennison
2002-09-11 13:54 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-09-11 14:06 ` Programmer Dude
2002-09-11 19:48 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-12 8:02 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-12 14:27 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-09-18 17:49 ` Andrew Berg
2002-09-18 23:13 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-09-12 16:12 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-12 16:45 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-12 17:03 ` David C. Hoos
2002-09-13 7:57 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-13 19:55 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-14 12:59 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-16 5:20 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-09-16 8:16 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-16 11:47 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-16 12:08 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-17 12:04 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-12 18:57 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-09-13 8:01 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-13 12:23 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-09-13 15:32 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-13 1:53 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-13 8:24 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-13 19:55 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-14 15:42 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-09-14 16:19 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-09-15 3:31 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-15 5:50 ` Mark Biggar
2002-09-15 8:38 ` achrist
2002-09-15 21:54 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-16 15:26 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-09-17 2:36 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-17 4:07 ` Larry Kilgallen
[not found] ` <jHHM$fQsCilo@eisneOrganization: LJK Software <bNwUY4VpTlxs@eisner.encompasserve.org>
2002-09-17 22:05 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-12 17:23 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-09-13 0:45 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-09-13 8:10 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-13 17:44 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-09-13 1:53 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-13 3:02 ` Robert A Duff
2002-09-13 10:50 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2002-09-13 17:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-09-13 19:55 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-12 20:36 ` chris.danx
2002-09-13 1:53 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-13 12:14 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-13 15:29 ` Robert A Duff
2002-09-13 17:02 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-09-14 12:49 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-16 8:14 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-16 11:56 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-13 17:27 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-09-16 7:55 ` Mats Karlssohn
2002-09-13 15:34 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-09-09 10:00 ` Ada-inspired OS/Language Peter Hermann
2002-08-30 23:56 ` Samuel Tardieu
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