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From: paik@mlo.dec.com (Samuel S. Paik)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: A challenge to all true hackers: objects and types
Message-ID: <1993Mar21.194004.13368@peavax.mlo.dec.com>
Date: 21 Mar 93 19:40:04 GMT
References: <JKH.93Mar9214944@whisker.lotus.ie> <C3ow4H.FID@BitBlocks.com> <JKH.93Mar15175727@whisker.lotus.ie> <1993Mar20.145007.1@vxcrna.cern.ch>
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In article <1993Mar20.145007.1@vxcrna.cern.ch> roeber@cern.ch writes:
>I really strongly urge anyone interested in this subject to read the
>Apollo folks' original paper on this.  I use their system daily, and
>though HP has killed Domain, the ideas are too good to die.
>
>postscript:
>
>  ftp://ftp.sage.usenix.org/pub/usenix/summer86/extensible-io.ps.Z
>  ftp://archive.umich.edu/apollo/ost.ps.Z
>
>text:
>
>  ftp://archive.umich.edu/apollo/ost
>
>
>If you can't get the paper, e-mail me and I can send it.

As further reading, the Sprite folks also went down this path.  Go grovel
around on sprite.berkeley.edu.  Brian Welch's thesis seems appropriate.
(as a further aside, most of their source code is available too).

Sam Paik