Operating-system support for distributed multimedia

  • Authors:
  • Sape J. Mullender;Ian M. Leslie;Derek McAuley

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Twente, Faculty of Computer Science, AE Enschede, The Netherlands;Cambridge University, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom;Cambridge University, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • USTC'94 Proceedings of the USENIX Summer 1994 Technical Conference on USENIX Summer 1994 Technical Conference - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

Multimedia applications place new demands upon processors, networks and operating systems. While some network designers, through ATM for example, have considered revolutionary approaches to supporting multimedia, the same cannot be said for operating systems designers. Most work is evolutionary in nature, attempting to identify additional features that can be added to existing systems to support multimedia. Here we describe the Pegasus project's attempt to build an integrated hardware and operating system environment from the ground up specifically targeted towards multimedia.