IPC and Transparency

The insider’s view of a centralized OS.

(Roughly patterned after XINU [Comer 1984])

hardware

process coordinator

process manager

memory manager

real-time clock manager

device manager and device drivers

file system

user programs

1

2

3

1

2

3

remote files

+ remote device access

+ remote process management

Previous slide

Next slide

Back to first slide

View graphic version