OMOS -- An Object Server for Program Execution
				       
				       
		   Douglas B. Orr and Robert W. Mecklenburg
				       
				       
				       
				  UUCS-92-033
				  July, 1992				       
				       
				       
			Department of Computer Science
			      University of Utah
			 Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
				       
				       

				   Abstract

The benefits of object-oriented programming are well known, but popular
operating systems provide very few object-oriented features to users, and few
are implemented using object-oriented techniques themselves.  In this paper we
discuss a mechanism for applying object-oriented programming concepts to
program binding (linking) and execution.  We describe OMOS, an
object/meta-object server that embodies a flexible object framework.  The OMOS
framework projects an object-oriented structure onto programs and shared
libraries that may not have been originally developed for use within an
object-oriented environment.  This framework provides natural facilities for
inheritance, interposition, and overloading of operations, as well as
development of classes with dynamically evolving behavior.

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Appears in identical form in "Proc. 2nd International Workshop on Object
Orientation in Operating Systems," Paris, France, September 1992.