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Aucbvax.1795 fa.apollo utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!CStacy@MIT-DMS Wed Jun 17 04:29:17 1981 ACCENT documentation available ACCENT: A COMMUNICATION ORIENTED NETWORK OPERATING SYSTEM KERNEL

Accent is a communication oriented operating system kernel being built at Carnegie-Mellon University to support the distributed personal computing project, Spice, and the development of a fault-tolerant distributed sensor network (DSN). Accent is built around a single, powerful abstraction of communication between processes, with all kernel functions, such as device access and virtual memory management accessible through messages and distributable throughout a network. In this paper, specific attention is given to system supplied facilities which support transparent network access and fault-tolerant behavior. Many of these facilities are already being provided under a modified version of VAX/UNIX. The Accent system itself is currently being implemented on the Three Rivers Corp. PERQ.

Keywords: Inter-process communication, networking, virtual memory, paging, UNIX, PERQ, VAX, network operating systems, distributed computation.

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For those who have an interest in personal workstation software, a copy of this paper (by Richard and Robertson) is available on DM.

The file names are:

CSTACY;ACCENT DOC Vanilla text format CSTACY;ACCENT PRESS Dover format with diagrams

Enjoy, Chris

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