Pilot (operating system)

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Pilot was designed by Xerox PARC in early 1977. It was a single-user, multitasking operating system. Pilot was written in the Mesa programing language, totalling about 240,000 lines Mesa code[1].

Pilot was designed as a single user system in a highly networked environment of other Pilot systems, with interfaces designed for inter-process communication across the network via the Pilot stream interface. Pilot combined virtual memory and file storage into one subsystem, and used the manager/kernel architecture for managing the system and its resources.

Pilot was used as the operating system for the Xerox Star workstation.

[edit] See also

Pilot: An Operating System for a Personal Computer

[edit] References

  1. ^ Experience with Processes and Monitors in Mesa. Retrieved on 2007-06-22.
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