The Roscoe distributed operating system

  • Authors:
  • Marvin H. Solomon;Raphael A. Finkel

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

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

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Abstract

Roscoe is an operating system implemented at the University of Wisconsin that allows a network of microcomputers to cooperate to provide a general-purpose computing facility. After presenting an overview of the structure of Roscoe, this paper reports on experience with Roscoe and presents several problems currently being investigated by the Roscoe project.