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SOBS: A Stream and Object Based System -- Paper Fragments

Section 1 -- Design
Basic Philosophy
Stream-Based Systems vs. Microkernels
Filesystem-style Access
 
Section 2 -- Implementation
Platform Details
Kernel and Bootstrap: Booting
Kernel and Bootstrap: sys386
Kernel and Bootstrap: objctrl
The Object Model: Object Initialization
The Object Model: C-style Access
The Object Model: Stream Functions
The Object Model: Error Codes
Other Objects: vfsm
Other Objects: bridge

Section 3 -- Future Developments
Stream Scripting Language
Platform Emulation

I'm still working on breaking the report down into webable parts, but this should all be up really soon.  Provides an outline of stream-based systems in general, and how the ideas behind a stream-based system were implemented in SOBS.

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