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Overview of the Hydra Operating System development

W. Wulf, R. V. Levin, C. Pierson

ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review · 1975 · 52 citations · 21 references

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Abstract

An overview of the hardware and philosophic context in which the Hydra design was done is discussed. The construction methodology is discussed together with some data which suggests the success of this methodological approach.

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David Lorge Parnas · Communications of the ACM · 1972 · 4.7K citations · Full text

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SIMULA: an ALGOL-based simulation language

Ole-Johan Dahl, Kristen Nygaard · Communications of the ACM · 1966 · 863 citations · Full text

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A technique for software module specification with examples

David Lorge Parnas · Communications of the ACM · 1972 · 737 citations · Full text

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Programming semantics for multiprogrammed computations

Jack B. Dennis, Earl C. Van Horn · Communications of the ACM · 1983 · 681 citations · Full text

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