CEDAR PAPER, June 17, 1985 3:26:25 pm PDT
1. The Structure of Cedar
Swinehart, Zellweger, and Hagmann
2. Overview of Talk
Cedar Component Structure
Open Architecture
Organization, Calling conventions
Safety
Examples
Sample Application
War Story
Future Directions for Cedar
3. Divisions
[The house of cards, in technicolor]
4. Cedar Machine
[components of Cedar Machine]
5. Nucleus
[components of Nucleus]
6. Life Support
[components of Life Support]
7. Applications
[components of Applications]
8. Evolution of Cedar
(towards safety)
BCPL -- open architecture, but caveat programmer
Mesa -- type safety, but caveat pointer-user
Cedar -- automatically-managed storage --
caveat LOOPHOLE
12. Calling Conventions in Cedar
[Picture indicating uniform procedure calling approach, downwards-only restriction, availability of components at each level.]
13. Calling Conventions
Uniform procedure calling approach
Downwards-only restriction
Availability of components at each level
14. Example of Actual Cedar Application
Stem from common roots
Same problem areas
Some common hardware and algorithms