Experience designing the waterloo port user interface

Authors:
Michael Malcolm;Doug Dyment
Affiliations:
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Venue:
SIGSMALL '83 Proceedings of the 1983 ACM SIGSMALL symposium on Personal and small computers
Year:
1983

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Abstract

The Waterloo Port operating system was produced by the Software Portability Group at the University of Waterloo as part of an ongoing research project. Port runs on a variety of personal workstations, and is used by researchers and by 120 students annually in fourth-year and graduate real-time programming courses. Many of the concepts in Port evolved from our earlier system, Thoth [1,2]. The emphasis on message-passing semantics and an anthropomorphic view of multi-process structuring [3,4] remains a focus of this evolution; integration of the implementation language with the user interface and file system is more evident in Port [5].