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Subject: Operating Systems Digest  V1 #0
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Date: Thu, 1-Jan-87 23:11:10 EST
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From: Darrell Long (The Moderator) <mod-os@sdcsvax.uucp>


Operating Systems Digest  Thu Jan  1 19:41:22 PST 1987  Volume 1 : Issue 0

Today's topics: The Re-birth of MOD.OS
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Greetings.   Welcome  to  MOD.OS.   My  name  is   Darrell   Long
(Darrell%beowulf@sdcsvax.uucp),  and  I  will  be moderating this
newsgroup.  I will collect submissions and publish them  periodi-
cally (every few days) as a digest.

My goal with this newsgroup is to provide a  medium  of  exchange
among folks interested in operating systems. My personal interest
is in operating systems research, distributed systems in particu-
lar.   I  think  that this newsgroup can be a valuable way to ex-
change technical information is a timely manner;  certainly  much
quicker than in the archival literature.

So, please, take time to participate!   There  are  so  many  in-
teresting  things  going on in operating systems research.  There
are many new and interesting systems that few people  hear  about
(yes,  Virginia, there is life after UNIX) -- MACH, the V Kernel,
Clouds, Amoeba, Cronus, just to mention a few.

Researchers: Please use this newsgroup to distribute abstracts of
your latest publications and technical reports.  This will give a
wider audience to your work, and increase the  interest  in  your
system.

I am just the moderator, it is you who will make  or  break  this
newsgroup.   Please  submit  items  of interest -- in any area of
operating systems (but let us leave the arguments of how many ar-
guments cat(1) should have to another group).

Here are some possible topics for discussion (grab  one  and  run
with it):

1.   Should file servers be state-less as they are in  SUN's
     NFS?

2.   Should more functionality be moved into  the  operating
     system  kernel,  or should it be provided by user-state
     servers?

3.   Should transactions be provided by the  operating  sys-
     tem,  or should they be, as Prof. Stonebraker suggests,
     left to the database implementor?

4.   Should the  file  system  be  integrated  with  virtual
     memory? (Shades of Multics!)

5.   Should the IPC be part of the file system, as it is  in
     Sprite?

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