Accent kernel

Accent was a message passing kernel developed at Carnegie Mellon University designed to handle large networks of uniprocessor workstations. Accent was part of the SPICE Project at CMU which ran from 1981 to 1985.

Some features of Accent:

• Port capabilites
• Copy-on-write virtual memory management
• Distributed file management
• Distributed process management
• Protected message-based inter-process communication

External links

• Rick Rashid's page at Microsoft Research