Pilot (operating system)

Pilot (operating system)

Infobox OS
name = Pilot



caption = Xerox Star desktop
developer = Xerox PARC
source_model =
kernel_type =
supported_platforms = Xerox Star workstations
ui = Graphical user interface
family =
released = 1981
latest_release_version =
latest_release_date =
latest_test_version =
latest_test_date =
marketing_target =
programmed_in = Mesa
prog_language =
language = English
updatemodel =
package_manager =
working_state = Historic
license =
website =

Pilot was a single-user, multitasking operating system designed by Xerox PARC in early 1977. Pilot was written in the Mesa programming language, totalling about 24,000 lines of code. [cite paper
last = Lampson
first = Butler W.
authorlink = Butler Lampson
coauthors = David D. Redell
title = Experience with Processes and Monitors in Mesa
publisher = Communications of the ACM
date = February 1980
url = http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/%7Ebrewer/cs262/Mesa.pdf
id =
accessdate = 2007-06-22]

Pilot was designed as a single user system in a highly networked environment of other Pilot systems, with interfaces designed for inter-process communication (IPC) across the network via the Pilot stream interface. Pilot combined virtual memory and file storage into one subsystem, and used the manager/kernel architecture for managing the system and its resources.

Pilot was used as the operating system for the Xerox Star workstation.

Further reading

*Horsley, T.R., and Lynch, W.C. Pilot: A software engineering case history. In Proc. 4th Int. Conf. Software Engineering, Munich, Germany, Sept. 1979, pp. 94-99.

ee also

*Timeline of operating systems

References

External links

* [http://www.mcjones.org/paul/pilot/pilot.html Pilot: An Operating System for a Personal Computer]


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