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A firmware monitor to support vertical migration decisions in the UNIX operating system

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MICRO 15: Proceedings of the 15th annual workshop on Microprogramming

Pages 153 - 162

Published: 05 October 1982 Publication History

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From a methodological point of view vertical migration involves the following four steps: identification of migration objects, prediction of expected system improvements, implementation, and verification of the results. In this paper a firmware monitor is presented as a support tool for the first and fourth step.

The application environment for this monitor is a PDP-11/60 with writable control store running the UNIX operating system. Based upon a UNIX system model the requirements for the monitor are defined in terms of objects and their parameters to be measured. Afterwards the hierarchical structure and the components of the firmware monitor are presented. Furthermore the monitor handling and its influence on the operating system are discussed.

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MICRO 15: Proceedings of the 15th annual workshop on Microprogramming

October 1982

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ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter Volume 13, Issue 4
Dec. 1982
169 pages
ISSN:1050-916X
DOI:10.1145/1014194
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Papachristou CImmaneni V(1993)Vertical Migration of Software Functions and Algorithms Using Enhanced MicrosequencingIEEE Transactions on Computers10.1109/12.19221342:1(45-61)Online publication date: 1-Jan-1993
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Ardoin CLinn JReynolds BCarter MMueller R(1984)The implementation of the attributed recursive descent architecture in VAX-11/780 microcodeProceedings of the 17th annual workshop on Microprogramming10.1145/800016.808228(179-189)Online publication date: 1-Dec-1984
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Holtkamp BWagner PCarter MMueller R(1984)An algorithm for selection of migration candidatesProceedings of the 17th annual workshop on Microprogramming10.1145/800016.808224(140-146)Online publication date: 1-Dec-1984
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