An open operating system for a single-user machine

  • Authors:
  • Butler W. Lampson;Robert F. Sproull

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SOSP '79 Proceedings of the seventh ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
  • Year:
  • 1979

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Abstract

The file system and modularization of a single-user operating system are described. The main points of interest are the openness of the system, which establishes no sharp boundary between itself and the user's programs, and the techniques used to make the system robust.