This file contains a brief description of all documenation 
found in this directory.  For the complete abstract, please 
refer to the Mach bibliography.

IO.{dvi.ps}	An I/O System for Mach.  This paper describes 
		the Mach 3 I/O interface.

IPCperf.{doc,ps} The Increasing Irrelevance of IPC Performance
		for Micro-kernel Based Operating Systems.

MIvmm.ps	Machine-Independent Virtual Memory Manager for
		Paged Uniprocessor and Multiprocessor Architectures
		Presented at 2 ASPLOS symposium 1987

OptSynch.ps	Fast Interrupt Priority Management in Operating System Kernels.
		USENIX Microkernels Workshop. 1993.


Rcs.ps		Fast Mutual Exclusion for Uniprocessors.  This
		paper describes restartable atomic sequences,
		an optimistic mechanism for implementing
		simple atomic operations on a uniprocessor.

RTM.ps		Real-Time Mach: Towards a Predictable Real-
		Time System

RTSynch.ps	Evaluation of Real-Time Synchronization
		in Real-Time Mach

X11_mem_behavior.ps
		Memory System Behavior of an X11 Window
		System.  To appear in The Proceedings of
		the Usenix Winter 1994 Technical Conference.


asplosVM.ps	Consistency Management for Virtually Indexed
		Caches.  This paper examines the problem of
		consistency management for a virtually indexed
		write-back cache.
    
benchmark.{doc.ps}
		Using Microbenchmarks to Evaluate System
		Performance.

cmultithread.ps	Bringing the C Libraries With Us into a Multi-
		Thread Future.  This paper addresses the issue
		of using versions of the C libraries in multi-
		threaded enviroments.

cont_threads.ps	Using continuations to build a user level
		threads library.

data_movement.ps
		Data movement in kernelized systems.  A look
		at Chorus and Mach 3.0 mapped files.

debugger.ps	Implementing a Mach Debugger for Multithreaded
		Applications

defaultmm.ps	Moving the Default Memory Manager out of the
		Mach Kernel.  This paper describes the default
		memory manager of Mach 3.0.

discardable-pager.ps
		Managing Discardable Pages with an External
		Pager.  This paper describes the external 
		pager of Mach 3.0.

dos-fs.ps	DOS file system for Mach.

dospaper.{dvi,ps}
		DOS as a Mach 3.0 Application.  This paper
		describes the MDOS implementation.

dual-mem-com.ps	The Duality of Memroy and Communication in the
		Implementation of a Multiprocessor Operating
		System. From SOSP11

emulation.ps	Generalized Emulation Services for Mach 3.0:
		Overview, Experiences and Current Development.

ex-pag.tutorial	A subdirectory containing information on the
				 external pager.

implementation.ps
		Inheritance in Unlikely Places: Using 
		Objects to Build Derived Implementations
		of Flat Interfaces.

intro.ps	Mach: A Foundation to Open Systems.  This
		paper is an introduction to the Mach operating
		system.

interpossys.ps	Transparently Interposing User code at the 
		System Interface.

ipc.ps		A Revised IPC Interface.  This paper describes
		the Mach 3.0 IPC facility.

ipc2.ps		A Fast Mach Network IPC Implementation.  This
		paper describes the implementation of network 
		Mach IPC optimized for clusters of processors
		connected by a fast network.

mach-in-x11.ps	Using the Mach Communication Primatives
		in X11

mach_us-multiserver.ps
		Generalized Emulation Services for Mach 3.0:
		Overview, Experiences and Current Development.

mach3_intro.ps	Unix as an Application Program.  This paper is
		an introduction to the Mach 3.0 kernel.

mapfiles87.{ps,doc}
		A Unix Interface for Shared Memory and Memory
		Mapped Files Under Mach. From Usenix '87

midway.ps	The Midway Distributed Shared Memory System

multiserver_interface.ps
		Object-Oriented Interfaces in the Mach 3
		Multi-Server System.

netperf.ps	Networking Performances for Microkernels.  

newpktfilter.ps Efficient Packet Demultiplexing for Multiple Endpoints and
		Large Messages 

non-blocking.ps	Practical Considerations for Non-Blocking
		Concurrent Objets.

os-memorysys.ps	The Impact of Operating System Structure
		on Memory System Performance
		To appear in The Fourteenth Symposium
		on Operating System Principles

pagereplace.{dvi,ps}
		Page Replacement and Reference Bit Emulation
		in Mach.

porting.tutorial.slides.ps.{Z}
		Porting and Modifying the Mach 3.0 Microkernel
		by Bob Wheeler. To be presented at the
		Third USENIX Mach Symposium -  April 19, 1993

RTtimer.ps	Real-Time Mach Timers: Exporting Time to the
		User  To be presented at the 
		Third USENIX Mach Symposium - 1993

schedsupport.ps	Scheduling and Resource Management Techniques
		for Multiprocessors.  This is David L. 
		Black's thesis.

syskernel.ps	Mach: A System Software Kernel.  This paper 
		describes how Mach 2.5 can be used as a system
		software kernel.

system.address.tracing.ps
		Software Methods for System Address Tracing
		(CMU technical report: CMU-CS-83-188)
		To appear in the proceedings of The Fourth
		Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems
		Napa, CA October 14-15, 1993 

threadmgnt.{dvi,ps}
		Using Continuations to Implement Thread 
		Management and Communication in Operating
		Systems.

threads87.{ps,doc}
		Mach Threads and the Unix Kernel: The
		Battle for Control. From Usenix '87

user.level.protocols.ps
		Protocol Service Decomposition for High-
		Performance Networking.   To be presented
		at the 14th ACM Symposium on Operating
		Systems Principles December, 1993