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A portable modula-2 operating system: SAM2S
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Abstract
The Stand-Alone Modula-2 System (SAM2S) is a portable, concurrent operating system and Modula-2 programming support environment. It is based on a highly modular kernel task running on single process-multiplexed microcomputers. SAM2S offers extensive network communication facilities. It provides the foundation for the locally resident portions of the MICROS distributed operating system for large netcomputers. SAM2S now supports a five-pass Modula-2 compiler, a task linker, link and load file decoders, a static symbolic debugger, a filer, and other utility tasks. SAM2S is currently running on each node of a network of DEC LSI-11/23 and Heurikon/Motorola 68000 workstations connected by an Ethernet. This paper reviews features of Modula-2 for operating system development and outlines the design of SAM2S with special emphasis on its modularity and communication flexibility. The two SAM2S implementations differ mainly in their peripheral drivers and in the large amount of memory available on the 68000 systems. Modula-2 has proved highly suitable for writing large, portable, concurrent and distributed operating systems.
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