Towards a combinative distributed operating system in CLUSTER 86

CODOSO, a combinative distributed operating system family that serves as an integrated environment for building various distributed operating systems according to different application requirements, is discussed. The basis of the CODOSO project is CLUSTER 86, an object-oriented programming languages. CODOSO is designed in an object model based on the language, in which the entire system is implemented. The authors discuss how the CODOSO distributed computing models are built up through CLUSTER 86. They outline the design philosophy and the implementation strategy, and present a brief comparison with some other related work. >