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                       ACCENT: A COMMUNICATION ORIENTED
                        NETWORK OPERATING SYSTEM KERNEL

Accent  is  a  communication  oriented  operating  system kernel being built at
Carnegie-Mellon  University  to  support  the  distributed  personal  computing
project,  Spice,  and  the  development  of a fault-tolerant distributed sensor
network (DSN).  Accent is  built  around  a  single,  powerful  abstraction  of
communication  between  processes,  with  all  kernel functions, such as device
access  and  virtual  memory  management  accessible   through   messages   and
distributable throughout a network.  In this paper, specific attention is given
to  system  supplied  facilities  which  support transparent network access and
fault-tolerant behavior.  Many of these facilities are already  being  provided
under  a  modified  version of VAX/UNIX.  The Accent system itself is currently
being implemented on the Three Rivers Corp. PERQ.

Keywords: Inter-process  communication,  networking,  virtual  memory,  paging,
UNIX, PERQ, VAX, network operating systems, distributed computation.

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For those who have an interest in personal workstation software, a
copy of this paper (by Richard and Robertson) is available on DM.

The file names are:

CSTACY;ACCENT DOC         Vanilla text format
CSTACY;ACCENT PRESS       Dover format with diagrams

Enjoy,
Chris