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European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming

ECOOP 1988: ECOOP ’88 European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming pp 250–266Cite as

An Implementation of an Operating System Kernel using Concurrent Object Oriented Language ABCL/c+

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The ABCL/c+ is a C-based concurrent object-oriented language, designed as an extension of ABCL/l, a language developed by A. Yonezawa and others. In order to create the world of processes, a routine object is introduced which unifies procedures, functions, and objects. ABCL/c+ is then used to write an operating system kernel. The XINU operating system, developed by D. Comer and others of Bell Laboratories, is rewritten entirely in ABCL/c+. The result shows that concurrent object-oriented languages can produce a highly readable and understandable operating system kernel.

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  1. Yasushi Kodama

    Present address: Nihon Sun Microsystems K.K., Ichibancho FS Bldg. 5F, 8 Ichiban-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102, Japan

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Information Science, Keio University, 4-1-1, Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, 223, Japan

    Norihisa Doi & Yasushi Kodama

  2. Department of Mathematics, School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Waseda

    Ken Hirose

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  1. Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1080, Blindern, N-0316, Oslo 3, Norway

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Doi, N., Kodama, Y., Hirose, K. (1988). An Implementation of an Operating System Kernel using Concurrent Object Oriented Language ABCL/c+. In: Gjessing, S., Nygaard, K. (eds) ECOOP ’88 European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming. ECOOP 1988. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 322. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45910-3_15

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