Accent operating system

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Accent operating system was an early experimental distributed operating system developed at Carnegie Mellon University that pioneered concepts later used in the Mach microkernel.

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Accent microkernel 1

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instanceOf distributed operating system
experimental operating system
academicDiscipline computer science
basedOn message passing
microkernel concepts
computingModel distributed computing
network-transparent IPC
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
developedAt Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science NERFINISHED
developer Carnegie Mellon University NERFINISHED
Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Department NERFINISHED
fieldOfStudy distributed systems
operating systems
inception early 1980s
late 1970s
influenced Mach microkernel NERFINISHED
Mach operating system NERFINISHED
intendedUse research
license proprietary
mainFeature location-transparent communication
message-based interprocess communication
support for distributed processes
notableFor early exploration of microkernel-based distributed OS design
pioneering concepts later used in the Mach microkernel
operatingSystemFamily Unix-like operating systems
programmingLanguage C
researchProjectAt Carnegie Mellon University NERFINISHED
status discontinued
targetHardware PDP-11 NERFINISHED
VAX NERFINISHED

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Mach microkernel basedOn Accent operating system
Mach influencedBy Accent operating system
Mach microkernel influencedBy Accent operating system
this entity surface form: Accent microkernel