Course: Distributed operating systems

Distributed kernels & operating systems

• Kernel of QNX, Chorus, and Amoeba
  QNX microkernel
  Chorus Nucleus
  Chorus abstractions
  Amoeba microkernel
• IPC
  QNX message passing
  QNX proxies
  Chorus message, ports
  Chorus port groups
  Amoeba IPC
• Servers, Services
  QNX Proc, scheduling
  QNX Fsys, file system manager
  QNX Dev, device manager
  QNX Net, network manager
  Chorus servers
  Amoeba bullet server
  Amoeba directory server
  Amoeba boot server
• Processes, Threads
  QNX process management
  Chorus threads
  Amoeba processes