Processes and Communication

Gary D. Duzan duzan@udel.edu
Fri, 05 Mar 93 19:34:38 -0500


=>>> Some issues are sufficiently important that you can't abstract 'em.
=>>> Each process having it's own address space is possible on all MMU equiped
=>>> systems.
=>MOOSE should be portable enough to be ported to other architectures than MMU
=>based, be it older or newer (to be) architectures. Of course, on a non-MMU
=>computer, you will be forced not to trust code not compiled (or interpreted)
=>on local host).
=>
   The conceptual model should assume an available hardware protection
mechanism. Each implementation should use available mechanisms as
appropriate. Implementation on systems without hardware protection
should preserve the conceptual model even though it can't really
enforce it.

                                        Gary Duzan
                                        Time  Lord
                                    Third Regeneration
                         Humble Practitioner of the Computer Arts