Design considerations for the transformation of MINIX into a distributed operating system

  • Authors:
  • P. Tobin Maginnis

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer and Information Science, The University of Mississippi, University, MS

  • Venue:
  • CSC '88 Proceedings of the 1988 ACM sixteenth annual conference on Computer science
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

MINIX is a version seven UNIX compatible operating system written for the Intel 8088 CPU and IBM-PC circuit package. MINIX is being transformed into a distributed operating system by adding four components to the basic operating system. These include an extended IPC service, network service manager, resource manager, and communication manager. Design considerations include a definition of Distributed Operating Systems (DOSs), a description of existing DOSs, a description of operating system architectural components which add DOS functionality, a plan for the placement of these components within the MINIX environment, an explanation of the types of DOS communication, and the implementation of DOS communication.