The Clouds Distributed Operating System

  • Authors:
  • Partha Dasgupta;Richard J. LeBlanc, Jr.;Mustaque Ahamad;Umakishore Ramachandran

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Computer
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

The authors discuss a paradigm for structuring distributed operating systems, the potential and implications this paradigm has for users, and research directions for the future. They describe Clouds, a general-purpose operating system for distributed environments. It is based on an object-thread model adapted from object-oriented programming.