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Campbell, Roy H. Russo, Vincent Frank 2011-05-07T12:40:42Z 2011-05-07T12:40:42Z 10000-01-01 1991 This thesis describes an experiment to use object-oriented programming and design techniques to design and implement an operating system. This experiment uses object-oriented techniques to address problems of operating system portability, maintainability, extensibility and efficiency. The thesis also characterizes an object-oriented operating system. The results of this experiment are presented in two parts. First, after presenting background information and relevant definitions, I characterize an object-oriented operating system. I then proceed to describe the design and implementation of an experimental object-oriented operating system. This presentation maps conventional operating system wisdom into the object-oriented framework supported by the experimental system. In this way, I show that object-oriented techniques can support realistic operating system algorithms and mechanisms, as well as provide software engineering advantages. The presentation of the system stresses ways in which object-oriented techniques support the system's design and implementation. The experimental system is evaluated in terms of performance, maintainability, portability and extensibility by using examples of how characteristic operating system problems are addressed. I will show that structuring an operating system in an object-oriented fashion and using the capabilities provided by an object-oriented programming language allows the construction of portable, extensible and maintainable operating systems without sacrificing performance. Not only is performance not sacrificed, I will even show how such techniques can often help lead to increased performance over conventionally structured systems. Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:40:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9124478.pdf: 7606372 bytes, checksum: 68901dcbc1c084aaad278bf9740b59dc (MD5) Previous issue date: 1991 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:44:14Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:19:27-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9124478 (UMI)AAI9124478 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/20489 eng Copyright 1991 Russo, Vincent Frank Computer Science An object-oriented operating system text Computer Science Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.