Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id RAA38975 for ; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 17:04:46 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id QAA61878 for linux-list; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 16:34:13 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id QAA19347 for ; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 16:34:11 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (tnik@hol.gr) Received: from mail.hol.gr (mail.hol.gr [194.30.192.21]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via SMTP id QAA08499 for ; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 16:34:04 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (tnik@hol.gr) Received: (qmail 14048 invoked from network); 4 Apr 1999 23:31:32 -0000 Received: from async117.ath02.tlc.hol.gr (HELO hol.gr) (firewall-user@194.30.194.248) by mail.hol.gr with SMTP; 4 Apr 1999 23:31:32 -0000 Message-ID: <370812BB.9E3BFA0C@hol.gr> Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 04:32:45 +0300 From: Theodoros Nikitopoulos X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.1.24 ppc) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Mungi OS (continued..) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Concerning a previous message you can find relative information about the Mungi OS and most importantly about the motivation of it's design at their archive of Technical Reports. Especially a paper called "Single Address Space Operating Systems" seems to be quite informative (available at: ftp://ftp.cse.unsw.edu.au/pub/doc/papers/UNSW/9504.ps.Z) Single-Address-Space OS seems to offer many advantages for modern systems design (aka. 64-bit computer architectures) and it can also support a POSIX compliant interface. However, are there any drawbacks of such an implementation ? Any one ? Theodore Nikitopoulos.