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ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
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OOPSLA '92 conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
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EW 5 Proceedings of the 5th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Models and paradigms for distributed systems structuring
The Art of the Metaobject Protocol
The Art of the Metaobject Protocol
Object Location Control Using Meta-level Programming
ECOOP '94 Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Kerner Structuring of Object-Oriented Operating Systems: The Apertos Approach
Proceedings of the First JSSST International Symposium on Object Technologies for Advanced Software
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IWOOOS '96 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Object Orientation in Operating Systems (IWOOOS '96)
Using meta-objects to support optimisation in the Apertos operating system
COOTS'95 Proceedings of the USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies on USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies (COOTS)
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Highly heterogeneous distributed computing applications present a tremendous challenge for operating system implementors. These applications present an extremely wide range of demands and must run in an extremely wide range of environments. In order to recognize the wide range of environments, without losing the benefits of traditional modularity, we propose a separation of concerns approach to the design of operating systems for this domain. In this paper, we first discuss importance of separation of concerns particularly in highly heterogeneous distributed computing. The discussion is based on the issues we encounter when programming of distributed applications such as for networked copiers, settop boxes for cablenets, networked analyzers/oscilloscopes, or palmtop computers. We then propose a way to solve them without sacrifice of performance. This paper contributes to this workshop in the sense that it addresses frustrations of programmers, particularly of embedded systems, and demonstrates our technology to solve their frustration from an operating systems' perspective.