Category Archives: operating systems

The multics file system

Posted on October 7, 2011 by admin

The design proposed in this paper is ubiquitous. A file is simply an ordered sequence of elements, where an element could be a machine word, a character, or a bit, depending upon the implementation. A user may create, modify or … Continue reading →

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Dutch masters

Posted on July 9, 2011 by admin

Seen on Linux Weekly News. Ext4 maintainer Ted Ts’o has responded with a rare (for the kernel community) admission that technical concerns are not the sole driver of feature-merging decisions: It’s something I do worry about; and I do share your … Continue reading →

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why microkernels don’t work

Posted on October 23, 2010 by admin

You can almost just see it from this diagram of connected boxes.  I want to think of the whole system as a series of connected state machines.  The arrows show how information is moved around the system with the green … Continue reading →

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