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The nucleus of a multiprogramming system
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This paper describes the philosophy and structure of a multi-programming system that can be extended with a hierarchy of operating systems to suit diverse requirements of program scheduling and resource allocation. The system nucleus simulates an environment in which program execution and input/output are handled uniformly as parallel, cooperating processes. A fundamental set of primitives allows the dynamic creation and control of a hierarchy of processes as well as the communication among them.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Hansen, P. B.
- Venue
- Communications of the ACM
- Published
- 1970-04
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 238-241
- ISSN
- 0001-0782 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7317
- OpenAlex
- W2039804807
- Cited by
- 334
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 28.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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